Love Quote by Candice Bergen

Comfort becomes a kind of quiet power move here. Candice Bergen isn’t selling comedy as some zany high-wire act; she’s framing it as home base. “Certainly” has the soft click of someone who’s been asked to justify her preferences and is gently done with the premise. She doesn’t say she loves being funny. She loves “doing comedy” - the craft, the rhythm, the rehearsal, the calibration. That wording matters for an actress whose career has moved between glamour, drama, and public scrutiny: comedy is where performance stops feeling like disguise and starts feeling like control.

The subtext is that comedy offers safety without softness. “Most comfortable near it” suggests she doesn’t need to be the constant punchline-delivery machine; she wants proximity to the comedic mode because it grants a particular kind of agency. In good comedy, you get to shape the frame before the frame shapes you. You can puncture pretension, redirect attention, even preempt criticism by anticipating it. For a woman navigating an industry that often rewards female “likability” over authority, comedy becomes a way to be authoritative while still being invited into the room.

Context deepens the line: Bergen’s most iconic work (Murphy Brown) turned the sitcom into a weekly negotiation with politics, media narratives, and gender expectations. Her comfort “near” comedy reads like a professional philosophy: stay close to the genre that lets you tell the truth with a smile sharp enough to cut.