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" When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy. " - John Cleese

" My job is mostly to entertain and be funny. " - Rosie O'Donnell

" I plan someday to do a one-man show based solely on the e-mails of Bellamy Young. And people will think I’ve written a brilliant comedy myself when, in fact, all the text will be directly from Bellamy. " - Joshua Malina

" My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway. " - Gene Hackman

" I always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do. " - Neal Brennan

" Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, ‘Are we there yet?’ Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from ‘Shrek.’ " - Elvis Mitchell

" My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn’t even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy. " - Jay Roach

" Perhaps I’ve been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form. " - Jaime Camil

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

" I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer. " - Nasim Pedrad