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There were two keys to the show [Seinfeld]. Our sense of humor is combustible together. There was no idea he [ Larry David ] would have that I couldn’t immediately get onto and say, ‘Yeah, then we’ll do that and then we’ll do that.’ We’re very combustible together. The other thing, equally as important to me, absolutely, if not more important, is we shared a relentless work ethic, both of us. — Jerry Seinfeld

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. — Will Rogers

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The difference between English and American humour is $150 a minute. — Eric Idle

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Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. — Steve Martin

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Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. — James Thurber

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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. — Ernest Hemingway

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All I need to make comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. — Charlie Chaplin

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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. — George Carlin

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Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die. — Mel Brooks

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The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes. — Bert Williams

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I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things -- because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy. — Woody Allen

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Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite. — Christian Morgenstern

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth

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Comedy is tragedy plus time. — Carol Burnett

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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays the part. — Miguel de Cervantes

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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And, if I can persuade you to laugh at a particular point that I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge it as true. — John Cleese

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Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you’re laughing, I defy you to be afraid. — Stephen Colbert, 2007

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I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes. Though I'm gonna be on for an hour. — Richard Pryor

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There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. — Jim Carrey

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