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Comedy works best when people recognise themselves.

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Jason Alexander
American - Actor
Born: September 23, 1959

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it.

Maurice Greene

That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.

Will Ferrell

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

John Cleese

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Rory Bremner

Really, when people put together the highlight reels of the classic moments from 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Cheers,' even 'MASH,' they're full of broad slapstick comedy. Call it cheap or lowbrow, but it works and it works for people of all ages.

Dan Schneider

Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.

Tom Baker

People who I've worked with are always like, 'Why aren't you doing comedy? You're funny!' because they've only seen the one side. I did do the comedy 'Whatever Works,' with Woody Allen and Larry David.

Evan Rachel Wood

My CD, my first release, was at the Comedy Works in Denver, one of the best clubs in the country.

Ari Shaffir

The problem with a lot of comedy clubs is not that they are a comedy club; it's just the cheesy way they're presenting themselves. That's why a lot of people have a problem with them. If you're a relatively unknown comedian, you can play at a comedy club, you might play to hundreds of people every night. But if you try to make a concert event out of it, and try to play a rock club or something, where you might play to 10 people or no people. And the flipside of that is, that's also a great thing, to play to people who are your fans. Some people are too hard on the comedy clubs.

Todd Barry

People in comedy are just gorgeous, just the best human beings. They are naturally interested in other people and in playing something other than themselves.

Sarah Alexander

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, ?Maybe it works,? but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

Jack Nicholson

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Tim Minchin

That's one of the things about comedy - I think it works best when it's contextualized, as opposed to kind of an island of cleverness.

Joshua Ferris

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.

David Dobkin

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

Colin Firth

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