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When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance.

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

I don't really like comedy.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

Yes, they allowed us to play around a lot because, like we said, the director's such a good comedy director.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.