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I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
Steve Martin

Funny, Thought, Writers

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry Seinfeld

Fun, Laugh, Friends

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh

Laugh, Training, Difficult

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken

Training, Theatre, Actor

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
Tom Stoppard

Great, Black, Production

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini

Socialism, Fraud, Phantom

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.
Jennifer Aniston

Easy, Underrated

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.
Joan Rivers

Rich, Her, Support

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
Jerry Seinfeld

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
Jerry Seinfeld

Work, Good, Anger

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!
Jon Stewart

Live, Heart, Hell

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Robert Orben

Writing, Secret, Ahead

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.
Tom Hiddleston

Funny, Best, Down

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.
Demetri Martin

Love, Long, Short

To me, comedy is a game.
Demetri Martin

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.
Demetri Martin

Old, Started, Guess

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks

Good, Down, Chance

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

Success, Home, Smile

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.
Chris Rock

Time, Wanted, Writer

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.
Chris Rock

Work, Trying, Place

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.
Chris Rock

Men, Written, Parts

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.
Chris Rock

Real, Same, Smoking

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.
Chris Rock

Group, Activity, Verbal

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Jeff Bridges

Love, Marriage, Stuff

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.
Donald Wolfit

Hard, Easy, Dying

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
Amanda Seyfried

Laugh, Humility, Making

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.
Don Rickles

Humor, Attitude, Study

I am into comedy.
Heidi Klum

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

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

Great, Writing, Sometimes

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