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" Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much. "
Live
Good
People
" Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over. "
Just One
Over
Just
" Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives. "
Thought
Men
Know
" Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching. "
Watching
TV
Great
" For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them. "
Time
Thoughts
Discipline
" Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad. "
Guys
Day
Internet
" I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people. "
Money
Life
Dating
" I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times. "
Ever
Reno
Pants
" I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians. "
Sick
Definitely
Think
" If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men. "
Future
Look
Men
" I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference. "
Actress
Big
Difference
" I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.' "
Say
You
Understand
" I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view. "
Hard
Love
Point Of View
" I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one. "
Dress
Myself
Stage
" In general, comedians are attracted to vice. "
Comedians
Attracted
Vice
" In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it. "
Love
Things
You
" I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, no. "
Practicing
God
Catholic
" I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking. "
Thinking
Stage
Lucky
" My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit. "
Right
Now
Dumb
" My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.' "
Sarcastic
Me
Dream
" My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe. "
Friends
Baby
Night
" Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes. "
Hamburger
Writes
Neil
" Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself. "
Think
Laugh
Funny
" Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich. "
Eating
Crazy
People
" The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose. "
Rich
Think
Talk
" The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good. "
Down
Think
Good
" There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier. "
Where
Comedy
Come
" There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances. "
Myself
Think
Ugly
" The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation. "
Permanent
Movement
Vacation
" What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny. "
You
World
Work
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