Eric Idle Quotes About Comedy
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Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.
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Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.
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Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
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I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.
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I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.
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To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.
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When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.
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I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?
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