“If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.”
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Tina Fey
On Comedy
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/03/anchor-woman
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