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The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

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.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

I get all of my comedy from CNN.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.

John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.

I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.