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I think it's easier for African American and white comics to be praised than it is Latinos because they think our culture or our humor is substandard,I mean, I just don't think they want to give us credit. I just don't think that they see us as important enough to be at their level. . . . I'm the longest-produced (comedy)

I'm like, 'No, it's not funny, but it has moments of comedy in it'. (Quote by - Ryan Murphy)

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)

You see, my dad grew up on Hollywood two-reelers and screwball comedies, His humor was very surreal and fanciful at times. I grew up on a steady diet of TV sitcoms, so my humor is more-to-earth. (Quote by - Dean Young)

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. (Quote by - V. S. Naipaul)

We wanted to do something that will capture their attention with humor. With the comedy presentation and fashion show, we hope to make things more life-applicable. (Quote by - Valerie Osborn)

Comedy Central viewers are by nature early adopters and avid users of advanced communications technologies and they expect to access our content when they want it, where they want it and how they want it, Windows XP Media Center Edition will optimize our soon-to-launch broadband channel by providing our users a variety of gateways to access Comedy Central content whether it's short and long form video, audio or text. (Quote by - Doug Herzog)

As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes. (Quote by - Matthew Lewis)

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is. (Quote by - Jack Lemon)

If it's approached as just a fun read, it's like romantic comedy with a marriage plot. If it's read more profoundly, there's delicious irony and incredible insight into human foibles. I hope this is a chance for all kinds of people to discover this real gem. (Quote by - William Phillips)

All we really want to do is tell a good story about a good man and his family and the struggle to get through life. It's a family drama with some dark comedy in it about this wonderful family that's just struggling like any other American family. (Quote by - Jack Kenny)

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

It's one of the funniest new plays I've read in a long time. It's a farce, a physical slapstick comedy. (Quote by - Robert Hupp)

What drew me to Office Space was just doing something totally different. Almost theatre-like, completely over the top, a real departure from News Radio. I think I am conservative, not eccentric. I don't have any inhibitions about making a fool of myself, but you have to, to be in comedy. (Quote by - Stephen Root)

The really interesting people we meet in our lives are mixed with comedy and tragedy. What they've created with Sheila, the audience and I have no idea what's going to happen, what she's going to do, or what she's going to say. (Quote by - Callie Thorne)

Blue Collar Comedy is our only program with growing ratings and it taps into an underserved market. Rather than keep hammering away at the small teen girl market, we decided to re-orient the network around this audience of people I fly over on the way to meetings. (Quote by - David Janollari)

Rachel was one of the early names that came up. As soon as we started thinking about her, we really got excited. She has a quality that is missing in a lot of American girls now. You know, just a sense of wholesomeness. And I had seen her movies and I thought they showed such range. At one moment, she's doing 'Mean Girls,' which is sort of high-level comedy, in a way, and then she's doing this really beautiful love story. (Quote by - Wes Craven)

Every week we had a different story and setting. Some were costume and period; some were modern. Some were comedy; some were tragedy. Some were melodrama. They were all different. (Quote by - Douglas Fairbanks)

I really enjoy his comedy. He reminds me a great deal of good British comedy actors. (Quote by - Carol Varney)

They're all regulars at the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, They've been on 'The Tonight Show,' they've been on 'Premium Blend' on Comedy Central, they've been in movies and television shows, and they're all really great stand-ups. (Quote by - Vince Vaughn)

I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s Huge fan. I love all that stuff. (Quote by - Thomas Jane)

He would be surprised to know he was still popular today, He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, their kind of comedy was old-fashioned. (Quote by - Arthur Marx)

It was a comedy of mistakes to start the third quarter. We didn't play very well and a team like Mandan takes advantage of everything. (Quote by - Bruce Anderson)

The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. (Quote by - Tim Allen)

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