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Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

— Lizzy Caplan

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only…

— Aisling Bea

Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques…

— Jack Nicholson

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

— Chris Rock

The trick [in comedy] is always to figure out how real you're playing it and how real it's supposed to feel. That's a hard…

— Michael Cera

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You…

— Natasha Lyonne

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

— Keegan-Michael Key

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

It is true that comedy might not be realistic all the time, but I enjoy doing it.

— Sanjay Mishra

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a…

— Chevy Chase

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

— Paul Lynde

There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics,…

— Andy Daly