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" '24 Hour Party People' was a comedy, and I knew that from the beginning. "
Peter Hook
" 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene. "
Bob Saget
" '50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour. "
Bryce Dallas Howard
" About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie. "
Klaus Kinski
" About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. "
Ken Watanabe
" Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play. "
Paul Watzlawick
" A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years. "
Eli Roth
" A comedy scene can't really have two weirdoes in it. It doesn't make any sense that way, so you need someone to ground it and call out what's unusual about this person and this scene. Early on, I got pretty good at doing that, and I felt pretty comfortable doing that. "
Rob Huebel
" A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is. "
Mario Monicelli
" A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was a blast. "
Reece Thompson
" Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious. "
David Sutcliffe
" Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.' "
Scott Thompson
" Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows. "
Paul Scheer
" Adversity creates comedy. "
Darren Star
" A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too. "
Seth Gordon
" After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging. "
Marla Gibbs
" After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you. "
Tina Fey
" After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how incredibly talented the Three Stooges really were after re-watching old episodes. They still stand up! "
Carly Craig
" After 'Jamai Raja,' I wanted to experiment, hence tried my hands at 'Comedy Nights Bachao Taaza.' "
Nia Sharma
" After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger, but if you're not consistently in those movies, people don't always think of you for them. "
Kirsten Dunst
" After the comedy boom of the '80s, there was a certain formula that comedians had to do and could do in order to be successful touring comedians, and those were mainly observational comedians who had a very strict structure of what made an act, and I think it was very performance oriented. "
Scott Aukerman
" After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy. "
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
" After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. "
Stephen Sondheim
" A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. "
Colm Meaney
" A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating. "
Jason Mantzoukas
" A good romantic comedy is my favorite movie to watch. "
Nicholas Stoller
" A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. "
Tom Stoppard
" All comedy does that. Every comedian I can think of - Larry David, Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Chris Rock - that's where the best comedy comes from, from stereotypes. "
Bryan Fogel
" 'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood. "
Tony Rock
" All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie. "
Todd Solondz
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