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• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

  Christopher Fry

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• Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

  Dario Fo

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• The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

  Stephan Pastis

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• Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn’t interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don’t think in terms of comic dialogue.

  Jim Parsons

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• In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.

  Mary-Louise Parker

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• I love to do comedy.

  Adrianne Palicki

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• I’d love to do a comedy. I’m terrified of comedy. I don’t think I’m funny, but I guess that’s why it’s so thrilling.

  Jared Padalecki

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• I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I’ve done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It’s not deliberate: it’s what makes me laugh, and there’s a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

  Sharon Horgan

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• Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

  Sharon Horgan

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• There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

  Sharon Horgan

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• I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

  Sharon Horgan

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• I think that’s important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you’re not just the girlfriend or the sister.

  Sharon Horgan

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• I’ve been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

  Taraji P. Henson

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• I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

  Sally Hawkins

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• Comedy is tragedy standing on its head with its pants down.

  Chris Crutcher

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• I love ’30 Rock.’ It’s one of my favorite shows. It’s certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  Dan Harmon

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• A lot of actors are like, ‘Why do I do this? My character wouldn’t do this? This doesn’t make sense.’ And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

  Kathryn Hahn

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• I’ve never been a shirt-off, pants-off kind of comedy guy.

  Jason Sudeikis

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• I don’t like this young crudeness now which is supposed to be comedy on Friday nights.

  Alan Sugar

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• As a comedy writer, I’m always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

  Nicholas Stoller

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