Quotes About Comedy

Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.

The situation was so pathetically sad, it was almost funny.

The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.

so I told him jokes. "Do you know why radio announcers have tiny hands?" "Huh?" "Wee paws for station identification," I would whoop.

Oh, my God! It's a killer Pomeranian. I glanced up at Derek. It's a tough call, but I think you can take him.

There's a reason why movie theatres don't encourage people to bring their goats.

What she needs,' Tom said aloud 'is a husband.' Agnes said crisply, 'Well, she can't have mine.

He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.

Es posible que no comprendiera por qué seguíamos sin poder reír, pero sabía que es imposible ser fuerte si se es incapaz de ver el lado cómico de las cosas. De hecho, se esforzaba tanto por encontrarle ese lado cómico a la vida que empezaba a preguntarme si estaría ciego a su otro aspecto, si tal vez era incapaz de comprender por qué la risa se nos atravesaba en el estómago.

A power nap, is when you sleep on someone who's weaker than you

Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone.

Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

Thy quips and thy quiddities.

Edgar—[Enter Edgar]and pat he comes, like the catastrophe of the old comedy: my cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o' Bedlam.

A merrier man,Within the limit of becoming mirth,I never spent an hour's talk withal.

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.