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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.