#comedy

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. ↗

— Sally Field

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Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. ↗

— Helen Fielding

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Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one? ↗

— John Cleese

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Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited. ↗

— John Cleese

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

— John Cleese

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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

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I don't think there's anything outside what comedy can address. ↗

— Steve Coogan

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Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality. ↗

— Steve Coogan

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I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing. ↗

— Dane Cook

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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that. ↗

— Ice Cube

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