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I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'

~Donny Most

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My dream role is Richard Pryor, no question about that. I'm a big Richard Pryor fan. I've always been intrigued about the darkness behind his comedy; that would always be a dream role for me.

~Dorian Missick

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I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

~Doug Stanhope

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I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I'm paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see who's funniest, with everyone treated equally.

~Doug Stanhope

Topics: Believe Comedy Equally Everyone Funniest Individual Just Paying Right See Should Sure Then Treated Vote Want Women I Believe I Believe That

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Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.

~Doug Stanhope

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There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.

~Doug Stanhope

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I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

~Doug Stanhope

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The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

~Doug Stanhope

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Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

~Douglas Coupland

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Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

~Douglas Sirk

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