#comedy

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#drama #half #half hour #hour #i

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. ↗

— David Ives

#because #challenge #comedy #english #form

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I'm able to compete in? ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#best #called #comedian #comedy #compete

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#did #failure #first #five #i

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#close-up #comedy #life is a #seen #tragedy

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. ↗

— Tina Fey

#audience #comedy #down #dress #her

Comedy was all I ever wanted. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#ever #i #wanted

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bringing #cheated #childhood #comedy #controlled

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy. ↗

— Sally Field

#come #comedy #did #especially #film

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#comedy #out #painful #quite #serious