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I've been called a race traitor, prejudiced about white people. It's ridiculous... I have a really, really diverse crowd. Most comedy clubs appeal to white audiences. I have a very mixed crowd. I have a lot of visibility in the black audience.

I wasn't the guy running out to the Viper Room or comedy clubs until three in the morning. I was the guy running back to watch the Mets win the World Series in 1986.

There's an audience out there for all these different types of things. Whether it's comedy, motion-picture drama, family movie or a cool, cutting-edge indie, it's nice to know that I can span all those different genres.

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

I feel sex is a common topic everyone see in content of any television shows be it a fiction or live comedy or a chat show.

If your timing is not correct then comedy will become tragedy.

I never did comedy or tragedy. I just live a situation and my mission is to entertain people.

I feel comedy is one of the strongest emotions that an actor portrays and the most powerful one too.

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

Nobody tried comedy in horror, and when I tried it ladies came to the theatre.

My idea is to provide maximum entertainment to audiences who want to experience the horror factor, laced with comedy that provides the relief.

For the first time I tried to involve an important social message about transgenders in the horror comedy genre.

'Irumbu Kottai...' is an action comedy. Even the villain, after beating up people, will keep laughing.

I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

It is easy to misunderstand what a comedy song is, or what its potential is. I'm used to musical comedy being maligned as an easy artform.

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for a long time, so when it came to writing comedy material, it was the thing that came easiest to me, the most natural way of writing.

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