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Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

There's some actors that go easily between drama and comedy because they play the naturalism of the role, and they just have natural timing.

'Seinfeld' was an amazing show. It's iconic and defined a whole generation of comedy writers - but by their own admission, that show was about nothing.

My parents certainly didn't understand TV comedy. They wouldn't turn on 'Married... With Children' and laugh.

It's cool to be able to use comedy as a way to make people feel like they're a part of a bigger collective rather than as a way to divide.

I have always liked comedy but with 'Yamla Pagla Deewana,' things were really different. I realized that situational comedy is the new trend, where you don't need to indulge in buffoonery to make people laugh.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

I'm from Oakland and I started doing comedy around 2001.

When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.

Too much comedy today is vulgar, not clever. I say that as a comedian and as a consumer.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them. I find them relaxing.

I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be a dramedy, it might be variety, it might be a talk show, whatever. There's no box.

I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

I don't like 'comedy,' I like 'life,' which has everything in it.

I have always thought of comedy as an important job and medium, and so I put pressure on myself to do the best I can.

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.