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Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.
‐‐ Artie Lange

Comedians who are 22 years old can certainly be funny and clever, and be capable of telling jokes - but are they talking about their favorite TV shows, or a particular brand of shampoo?
‐‐ Rob Delaney

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
‐‐ Teller

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before.
‐‐ Todd Phillips

Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.
‐‐ David Naughton

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
‐‐ Arthur Smith

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.
‐‐ Beth Behrs

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
‐‐ John Cleese

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.
‐‐ Nicholas Lea

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.
‐‐ Sharon Horgan

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
‐‐ Jason Reitman

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
‐‐ Jack Dee

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
‐‐ Harold Ramis

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
‐‐ Zosia Mamet

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality.
‐‐ Riteish Deshmukh

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.
‐‐ Rob Walton

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.
‐‐ Paul Lieberstein

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.
‐‐ Doug Stanhope

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
‐‐ Robin Williams

Comedy can be a little brutal, but not in a satisfying way.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

Comedy can be more difficult than drama. It requires more attention to timing. In the theater, you're always dependent on the audience for the energy, but in comedy the feedback you get is more important. You can judge by the quickness and the length of the laugh just where you stand with the audience.
‐‐ David Alan Basche

Comedy can't be about continuous success.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'
‐‐ Bill Cosby

Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the 'Chappelle' reruns. For BET, the 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' has that same potential.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

Comedy chose me.
‐‐ Craig Robinson

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.
‐‐ Marlon Wayans

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing comedy again in alternative spaces.
‐‐ Eugene Mirman

Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.
‐‐ Marshall Brickman

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.
‐‐ Chris Tucker

Comedy comes from confusion.
‐‐ Vir Das

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.
‐‐ Tim Vine

Comedy did a lot of things for me. I mean, 'SNL'? Not too bad. Not too shabby with this comedy thing. I have really worked on my comedy and really upped it some notches.
‐‐ Jay Pharoah

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
‐‐ John Hodgman

Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.
‐‐ Craig Kilborn

Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.
‐‐ Bo Burnham

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
‐‐ Jensen Ackles

Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of the earth!
‐‐ June Diane Raphael

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.
‐‐ Isla Fisher

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.
‐‐ Kelli Berglund

Comedy has been so good to me.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

Comedy has lost its eloquence.
‐‐ Robert Klein

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
‐‐ Chris Hardwick

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
‐‐ Sid Caesar