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I made four comedies, and all did well, but I always wanted to do an action film. When I saw 'Singham,' I thought this was the right film. Many stopped me, saying, 'You are doing so well in comedy, why do you want to make this film?'
Rohit Shetty
Saying
Me
You
Comedy
Thought
Made
Action
Saw
Comedies
Well
Make
Always
Doing
Did
Stopped
Want
Wanted
Action Film
Many
Film
Why
Right
Four
I think what's very French is the mixture of comedy with intimacy and a kind of reflectiveness. For U.S. audiences, the nearest thing is Woody Allen.
Romain Duris
Comedy
Think
Intimacy
Kind
Allen
French
Audiences
Mixture
Very
Woody
Woody Allen
Nearest
Thing
For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.
Romany Malco
Me
Comedy
Same Thing
Drama
Same
Thing
When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.
Romesh Ranganathan
Love
Comedy
First
Before
Fell
American
Started
Watching
British
I was a teacher before comedy, but it was good because no two days were the same, which this job is too.
Romesh Ranganathan
Teacher
Good
Comedy
Job
Before
Too
Days
Because
Were
Same
Which
Two
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.
Romesh Ranganathan
Time
Myself
Celebrate
Happy
Marriage
Key
Comedy
Wife
Will
Long
Year
Our
Out
Gigs
Wedding
More
Absent
Long Periods
Divorced
Tenth
Anniversary
House
Periods
Around
Getting
Being
Happy Marriage
Next
Next Year
My family is all obsessed with comedy. I grew up watching a lot of comedy in the house. I used to watch Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy with my dad. But my mom is more into slapstick stuff.
Romesh Ranganathan
Mom
Family
Comedy
More
Obsessed
Stuff
House
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Lot
Up
Pryor
Grew
Richard
Richard Pryor
Used
Dad
Slapstick
Watch
Murphy
Watching
I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't go well I go dark in my head. Basically I start thinking it should be illegal for me to be doing comedy.
Romesh Ranganathan
Time
Me
Dark
Comedy
Negative
Long
Joke
Long Time
Thinking
Something
Head
Takes
Over
Over It
Well
Doing
Go
Get
Hugely
Land
Should
Illegal
Start
Basically
Some of my biggest influences are people like Steven Wright and Todd Berry. I'm a shy person, and I don't think people who aspire to do comedy think that's an option.
Ron Funches
People
Comedy
Think
Berry
Some
Wright
Like
Steven
Option
Person
Influences
Biggest
Todd
Aspire
Who
Shy
Shy Person
Early on in my career, when I had basically been a sitcom actor for all of these years, and I made my first movies, and they were comedies, and they were successes, it was very important for me to stretch, and 'Parenthood' was one of those films. Even though it was a comedy, there was a great deal of authentic drama in the piece as well.
Ron Howard
Great
Me
Comedy
Great Deal
Made
First
Important
Films
Drama
Those
Though
Parenthood
Had
Piece
Comedies
Well
Deal
Were
Been
Years
Very
Authentic
Sitcom
Movies
Successes
Even
Actor
Early
Basically
Career
Stretch
There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.
Ron Shock
People
Comedy
Few
Background
Diversified
Been
Very
Few People
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.
Ron Shock
Comedy
Joke
Given
Could
Write
Never
Call
Subject
Lot
Just
Stories
Them
Comedy is all about the pause.
Ron White
Comedy
About
Pause
I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
Ron White
Comedy
Huge
Huge Fan
Child
Fan
I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.
Ron White
Comedy
Before
Rumor
Out
Town
Advertising
Got
Selling
Going
Just
Theaters
Clubs
Started
There's no idea or concept in comedy you could do that hasn't been attacked from some angle. But if you start leaving punchlines out so you'll look cool, I don't get that. But I don't watch standup anyway, so I don't know what they're doing.
Ron White
You
Comedy
Out
Some
No Idea
Angle
Attacked
Could
Idea
Know
Look
Concept
Doing
Leaving
Been
Get
Anyway
Cool
Standup
Start
Watch
I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don't need my help.
Ron White
Good
World
Comedy
Own
Christian
Think
Clean
Help
Need
Comedy is great because there's no overhead.
Ron White
Great
Comedy
Because
Overhead
All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.
Ron White
Funny
Comedy
Mind
Else
Out
Besides
Spit
Could
Take
Know
How
Comedy taste changes. It only changes slightly, but there's always a different angle, a different attitude.
Ronnie Corbett
Attitude
Comedy
Changes
Slightly
Angle
Only
Always
Taste
Different
Different Attitude
There are many comics around who don't really have a feel for comedy. They can say outrageous things, have clever thoughts, and deliver some funny angles. But they are not genuinely funny.
Ronnie Corbett
Funny
Thoughts
Comedy
Clever
Say
Some
Angles
Outrageous
Deliver
Feel
Around
Genuinely
Comics
Really
Who
Many
Things
Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.
Ronny Chieng
Home
You
Comedy
Everywhere
Draw
Definitely
Outsider
Feel
Comfortable
Always
Being
Anywhere
Really
I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later.
Ronny Chieng
Competition
Law
Comedy
Degree
Parents
Few
Later
Completing
Gigs
Only
Joined
Could
Never
Felt
Doing
Years
Discovered
Won
Campus
While
Then
Standup
Started
My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.
Ronny Chieng
Comedy
Style
Observational
Olympian
I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
Ronny Chieng
Law
School
Comedy
Law School
Singapore
Doing
Up
Australia
Grew
After
Stand-Up Comedy
Started
There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'
Ronny Chieng
Me
You
Comedy
Way
Say
Pretty
Outsider
Weird
Foreign
Lot
Being
Why
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