Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.
Harold RamisI have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.
Harold RamisStand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.
Harold Ramis