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Quotes about comedy and comedians
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. (Chong Tommy)
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. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Chong Tommy)
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Chong Tommy)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Chong Tommy)
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. (Chong Tommy)
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. (Chong Tommy)
Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred. (Chong Tommy)
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. (Chong Tommy)
I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists. (Chong Tommy)
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. (Chong Tommy)
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. (Chong Tommy)
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. (Chong Tommy)
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. (Chong Tommy)
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. (Chong Tommy)
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. (Chong Tommy)
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing. (Chong Tommy)
Only one that's lasted 34 years, six months and five days. A lot of comedians are really angry people, and they deal with rage through being acerbic, subversive, in a funny way. It's just a way to sublimate what could be a lot uglier. (Chong Tommy)
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. (Chong Tommy)
Wedding Singer' taught us we shouldn't be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy. (Chong Tommy)
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