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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
Louis C. K.
Comedy
Approach
Way
Correct
Mess
Polite
Accurate
Just
Even
I worked for the Comedy Store as an employee trying to become a paid regular. I had this dream of achieving a half hour special on TV.
Ari Shaffir
Comedy
Half
Become
TV
Dream
Had
Hour
Employee
Trying
Store
Achieving
Worked
Regular
Paid
Special
On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'
Adam Conover
Saying
You
Comedy
Naughty
Uncle
Joke
Big
Everything
Ruins
Immediately
Possible
Characters
See
Silly
Fingers
Costumes
He
Stuff
Know
His
Sam
Oh
Where
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Here
Adam
Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down.
Simone Giertz
Natural
Comedy
Down
Medicine
Adding
Approach
Easier
Syrup
Tricky
Find
Daunting
Putting
Like
Because
Makes
How
Go
Just
Anything
Your
My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Brian d'Arcy James
Envy
Comedy
Amazing
Sister
Group
Laugh
Admiration
Someone
Comedian
Look
She
Make
Because
Amazing Thing
Chicago
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
Younger
Her
Thing
I’m sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there was also the sense that this was the death of comedy. But it’s just progress.
Nish Kumar
Death
Progress
Comedy
Before
Sense
Sexist
Onstage
Also
Alternative
Sure
Person
Essentially
Just
Being
Which
Aside
Standup
Billy
Started
Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.
Elizabeth May
Comedy
Bad
Attempt
Anyone
Night
It's our hope that MySpace Comedy, much like Music and Film before it, will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians and as an attraction for the biggest names in the industry.
Tom Anderson
Hope
Music
Comedy
Will
Before
Our
Launch
Myspace
Like
Names
Comedians
Attraction
Industry
Up-And-Coming
Biggest
Pad
Much
Film
Serve
One of the attractions of translating 'Heroes' is that it's not the kind of play that I write. If it had been, I probably wouldn't have wanted to translate it. There are no one-liners. It's much more a truthful comedy than a play of dazzling wit.
Tom Stoppard
Comedy
Heroes
Kind
One-Liners
I Write
More
Write
Had
Wit
Dazzling
Attractions
Been
Truthful
Than
Wanted
Translate
Translating
Much
Play
'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.
Bill Cosby
Culture
Comedy
Made
Television
Cosby
Impact
Bar
Lowering
Show
Rejected
Our comedy is just falling over, funny faces, arguments, all the comedy basics, really.
Bob Mortimer
Funny
Comedy
Argument
Our
Faces
Over
Falling
Just
Really
Basics
Like, your body has to get used to being in front of people. Like - and you have to be like - you have to be kind of a ham, you know? Like, the thing about writers is they're generally self - comedy writers - self-loathing, sort of play small. And as a, like, performer, you have to think like a comedy writer but act like a performer.
Neal Brennan
You
People
Be Kind
Comedy
Think
Kind
About
Small
Writer
Writers
Self
Generally
Performer
Like
Know
Sort
Self-Loathing
Ham
Get
Front
Being
Body
Act
Your
Used
Your Body
Play
Thing
Comedy is an indoors thing, so I take every opportunity to go outside. A lot of that involves finding places that are remote, or places where you can look at birds, or do mountain biking or paddle boarding or walking.
Bill Bailey
You
Comedy
Opportunity
Every
Birds
Finding
Take
Outside
Indoors
Remote
Look
Involves
Go
Lot
Mountain
Walking
Where
Places
Boarding
Paddle
Biking
Thing
Every Opportunity
Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.
Paul O'Grady
Funny
Comedy
Bone
Childhood
Formed
Your
I am really happy that even though I am stuck in the comedy genre I have not been typecast. I am still getting to experiment a lot with my characters, which is a boon.
Neha Pendse
Happy
I Am
Comedy
Experiment
Typecast
Boon
Though
Characters
Stuck
Genre
Am
Still
Been
Lot
Getting
Which
Really
Even
Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it.
Chris O'Dowd
Writing
Comedy
Thought
Taking
Going
Brief
We're like a rogue satellite circling the comedy universe.
Kyle Gass
Comedy
Universe
Circling
Like
Rogue
Satellite
When I was in Canada I shot a romantic comedy that I'm looking forward to having people see, it's called 'The Weekend.'
Y'lan Noel
People
Comedy
Looking
See
Having
Weekend
Looking Forward
Canada
Romantic
Romantic Comedy
Shot
Forward
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.
Chuck Palahniuk
Son
Book
Comedy
Mother
Cancer
Own
Market
Caring
Plot
Promote
Torture
About
My Own
Had
Diagnosed
Coming
His
Version
Privately
Trying
Dying
While
Public
Meant
Choke
Appear
Film
Lung
Save
You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.
Justin Lin
Day
You
Comedy
Cheat
Know
Going
Either
Capture
My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.
Damon Wayans, Jr.
Comedy
Thought
Uncle
Young
Dancing
Stay
See
Never
He
Knew
Since
Come
Piece
Shawn
Terrible
Him
Always
Were
His
Break
Then
Us
Really
Used
Cool
Downstairs
Cardboard
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.
Brendan O'Carroll
Comedy
Fools
Only
Horses
Glad
Put
Miss
Towers
Like
Category
I would say about 90 per cent of drunken idiots in comedy clubs wear ties, particularly in London where I work most of the time.
Lee Mack
Work
Time
Comedy
Say
Would
Wear
London
Per
About
Most
Particularly
Drunken
Ties
Idiots
Where
Cent
Clubs
I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy clubs.
Neal Brennan
Writing
Comedy
Matter
Rat
Gym
Point
How
Still
How Much
Did
Just
Clubs
Realized
Much
Certain
Certain Point
I want to continue to be challenged and feel a sense of fulfilment, like I have over the years at 'Emmerdale.' I've got aspirations to do other genres and I'm really keen to play a different character, whether it's in comedy or action, and just do something that's completely different.
Kelvin Fletcher
Character
Comedy
Sense
Action
Other
Something
Feel
Over
Like
Genres
Got
Continue
Years
Just
Different
Want
Whether
Really
Fulfilment
Aspirations
Keen
Challenged
Play
Comedy or villain, the role does not matter as long as it is challenging.
Paresh Rawal
Comedy
Matter
Long
Does
Role
Villain
Challenging
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