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Comedy has a funny way of using people whilst giving something intanglible in return.

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1 month ago

In regard to the mental health stuff, it was just there. It’s been there forever, but it’s really come up a lot in just knowing where the characters were headed and how important it is to work on yourself to help your team, and I think that we were trying to explore that and personify it in a way and kind of trojan horse that there’s bigger issues in this fun, silly little comedy show.

Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that those porch talks, the Instagram lives were kind of essential in that process because I think that at the time, I was unwilling to do outdoor comedy or drive-in comedy or zoom comedy, I just, I couldn’t because it just seemed too difficult and I didn’t need that aggravation and I didn’t see it as a way to to process or create, i think that the Instagram lives became essential in me engaging with an audience of people that were watching, and so I was in a zone where I was putting stuff out in the world for people and doing it much like I do comedy.

Randy Shropshire/Getty Images Maron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that the Instagram lives became essential in me engaging with an audience of people that were watching, and so I was in a zone where I was putting stuff out in the world for people and doing it much like I do comedy.

Randy Shropshire/Getty Images Maron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As we wait for our next helping of ‘Succession,’ apparently coming in spring 2023, ‘The Bear’ provided us with a similarly addictive dose of vividly memorable characters, family drama and eye-popping surprises, albeit on the opposite end of the class spectrum, but is it a comedy or a drama?

Jeff Yang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Republicans need to be consistently communicating … on the local level, the regional level and the national level, tyler Olson/Fox News -RRB-'s not just with the political news media. … Tyler Olson/Fox News -RRB-'s on the ‘ Today ’ show. We see Tyler Olson/Fox News -RRB- on ‘ The View ’ every single day. Tyler Olson/Fox News -RRB-'s on Comedy Central, Tyler Olson/Fox News -RRB-'s on HBO, Tyler Olson/Fox News -RRB-'s on ESPN and on Fox Sports.

Byron Donalds

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He( Bruno) is funny, smart, and he's a very relaxed character. He can get really overwhelmed, he can get worried, and he uses comedy to get past situations.

Elliot Garcia

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What's most challenging for any adapter of Jane Austen must be capturing Jane Austen fiction's incredible combination of comedy, irony and social criticism, along with genuinely moving stories of courtship.

Devoney Looser

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m performing at the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina. There was an active shooter in the comedy club, so, they moved us over – and the concert’s going on. It’s ‘Big Time Rush.’ So, I thought I would share it with you all.

Craig Robinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I actually think the most interesting thing about what's going to happen here is that this speech is going to be a real test case for what is comedy in the US in 2022, it used to serve as: Let's find some humanity here, let's find the lighthearted. In 2022, things are so partisan and so tribal, is there anything beyond the most pointed partisan humor?

Don Waisanen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It sets a terrible precedent in so many different ways, it sets a terrible precedent for comedy clubs. Like, are people going to decide to go on stage and smack a comedian now?

Joe Rogan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We filmed it and I showed it to Netfix and I said, ‘Look at this.’ 15 minutes…The Head of Comedy said, ‘This is remarkable,’ and they bought it as a special. It airs the first week of June.

Mike Binder

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re making judgement calls based on your motives and who you’re joking about, whether or not your jokes really count as jokes or if they count as hate speech, that’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s this tricky area that we’re landing in doing comedy as conservatives whose views simply differ from the popular narrative.

Seth Dillon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With so many shows, believing in comedy or drama is only for those who don't know the backstage of life.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

I always had a sort of sincere approach to the comedy, i took it seriously even though, it was a horror movie and a comedy, I felt you had to sort of deal with it in a kind of realistic and honest way.

Ivan Reitman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is ironic that comedy -- the one thing that kept me alive and gave me hope -- was the same thing that took everything from me, but I don't blame comedy. I will never blame comedy. I blame the system, the government and the state of our society.

Nalin Yadav

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is the first female teacher character in a comedy who has been portrayed in a positive light, and who is realistic, like a well-rounded person, in a very long time.

Mary Dalton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Oregon native was a groundbreaking talent and lifelong friend and longtime client, whose kindness and generosity was equaled by The Oregon native influence and admiration to generations of actors and improvisational comedy throughout the world.

Robbie Kass.Hesseman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What a sad commentary on our politics. We're simply acknowledging reality is now seen as a profile in courage, people sometimes say to me, ‘You know, you didn’t use to make fun of the left as much.' Yeah, because they didn't give me so much to work with. The oath of office I took was to comedy. And if you do goofy s---, wherever you are in the spectrum, I'm going to make fun of you because that's where the gold is. And the fact that they are laughing at it should tell you something- it rings true.

Bill Maher

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jim Henson always had Korean American eye on narratives that could speak to people of all ages, not just children, and Korean American never saw puppetry as merely children's entertainment, there are levels of social commentary, comedy, metaphysics, drama, and psychology in these stories that make them speak to a very broad audience ; you'll also see different things if you revisit them over many years.

Jennifer Garlen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Michael Tran/FilmMagic comedy proved Michael Tran/FilmMagic nice-guy image. Bob Saget said the most offensive things anyone had ever heard, and we loved Bob Saget not despite it, but because of it.

Pen Jillette

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Momma, I Made It ! , i'm actually hosting' Yearly Departed' on Amazon Prime and it's not quite a comedy like a stand-up comedy special, but it is a comedy.

Yvonne Orji

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm actually hosting' Yearly Departed' on Amazon Prime and it's not quite a comedy like a stand-up comedy special, but it is a comedy.

Yvonne Orji

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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