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I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. (Tharp Twyla)
But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible. (Tharp Twyla)
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track. (Tharp Twyla)
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level. (Tharp Twyla)
It was also the timing of the '50's. There were also some great comedy shows on live TV. (Tharp Twyla)
We owned this little record store on 42nd Street and he knew we loved comedy. (Tharp Twyla)
I would love to do a comedy. The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters is because there is room for the unexpected. (Tharp Twyla)
I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show. (Tharp Twyla)
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy. (Tharp Twyla)
I would actually go up during those; it was kind of scary for the people at first and then they were happy. Now, there's a couple amazing people out on the road like Pablo Francisco and Dane Cook is out there and they're building a huge audience with the craft of stand up comedy. (Tharp Twyla)
It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive. (Tharp Twyla)
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation. (Tharp Twyla)
The Comedy Store - all three rooms were filled with 800 people in the room. And during that time, all these guys and some women, but mostly guys who weren't funny were doing stand up for a living; they weren't accountants, they were making $30-$50 grand a year on the road, or more. (Tharp Twyla)
The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. (Tharp Twyla)
Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored. (Tharp Twyla)
A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny. (Tharp Twyla)
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. (Tharp Twyla)
There's no question about it, but it's also very funny because it's very satirical and written in the same kind of Batmanesque humour that our show was written. (Tharp Twyla)
No, I would have advised them to use Andy Lau or Aaron Kwok, they'd be far more practical in a musical. (Tharp Twyla)
I think every fat comedian owes him 80 bucks that's working today. (Tharp Twyla)
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside. (Tharp Twyla)
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