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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure". Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
quote by Carol Burnett
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
quote by Carl Reiner
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.
quote by Cillian Murphy
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I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
quote by Will Ferrell
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Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.
quote by Trishelle Cannatella
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It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
quote by Tony Hancock
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I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
quote by Parker Posey
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Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
quote by Lisa Kudrow
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
quote by Corbin Bernsen
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Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
quote by Michael Caine
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Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.
quote by Bruce McCulloch
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Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.
quote by Tim Roth
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Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.
quote by Joel McHale
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Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
quote by Larry David
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It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
quote by Reese Witherspoon
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
quote by Val Kilmer
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Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.
quote by Albert Brooks
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