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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. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Tharp Twyla)
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Tharp Twyla)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. (Tharp Twyla)
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. (Tharp Twyla)
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred. (Tharp Twyla)
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. (Tharp Twyla)
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. (Tharp Twyla)
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. (Tharp Twyla)
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. (Tharp Twyla)
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. (Tharp Twyla)
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. (Tharp Twyla)
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