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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.