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You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

- Adrian Edmondson

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It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous.

- Adrian Edmondson

We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny.

- Adrian Edmondson

I've always had a kind of visual eye, and it was a pleasant exercise for that.

- Adrian Edmondson

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

- Adrian Edmondson

Most modern comedy is crap.

- Adrian Edmondson

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

- Adrian Edmondson

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Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

- Rob Walton

I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

- David Steinberg

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

- Will Ferrell

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

- Bobby Darin

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

- V. S. Naipaul

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

- Matt Lucas