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I thought there would be a lot of , you know, transferable skills, from acting and comedy, but there weren't that many!

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to join this improv troupe and it went well and I started performing with them.

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the things that shouldn't be mocked.

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

I think for a heroine to do comedy and action and also be glamorous is a big thing. That's why 'Supreme' will be very close to my heart.

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics.

I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four years did I feel confident enough to be like, 'Okay, I feel good about starting to put stuff on the Internet where it lives forever.' As opposed to one time at a college sketch show where it bombs and we never speak of it again.

I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.

I liked 'Serious Men,' and 'Scam 1992' is amazing, what a show! I also watched 'Comedy Couple,' that too was amazing.

The trend the world over is comedy. People have enough tragedies in their lives.

'Hulchul' is a family comedy. You can call it 'humor around families.'