Chris Hardwick Quotes About Comedy
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American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
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Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
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Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
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Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones who bought me Steve Martin records and let me watch R-rated comedies long before they probably should have.
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Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.
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As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to.
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I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.
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With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
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The goal of almost every comic is to find a comedy voice - a specific point of view that an audience can latch onto.
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