Quotes About Comedy

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

And wit only sounds like wit when there's someone around to appreciate it.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Look at Bob Hope. Look at Milton Berle, George Burns. Look how long they lived. Seeing the funny side of things keeps you alive.

My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

I like to see love stories: romantic comedy or romantic drama.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

there was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim." He

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.