#comedy

There is a universality to comedy. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#universality

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. ↗

— Parker Posey

#casting #comedy #deep #depression #flip

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#called #club #comedy #comics #connection

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#comedy #itself #may #protecting #say

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#controlling #laugh #making #people #very

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#club #comedy #comedy club #had #hard

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#compromise #doing #guy #hard #know

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

— Tim Matheson

#comedy #out #really #things #want

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

I don't really like comedy. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#i #like #really