"Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president."
-Marlon Wayans
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"Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.“
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"You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness."
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"There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be."
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"Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working."
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"I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue."
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"If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong."
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