Comedy Quotes

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Don't come on to be funny - come on to solve problems.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

If you don't dissagree with me, how will I know I'm right?

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Now I've wrestled alotta countries!

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

I like idiotic comedies.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.

Accents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

Wonder Showzen is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn't know comedy could do that.

A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate to get to the end to find out what happens, it really hooks you.

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

The funny part is I feel like somebody is stalking me, like, at my local course and sizing up my game.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.