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Quotes About Comedy

The most lamentable comedy, and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.
~ William Shakespeare
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too.
~ William Shakespeare
The quick comediansExtemporally will stage us, and presentOur Alexandrian revels. AntonyShall be brought drunken forth, and I shall seeSome squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatnessI' the posture of a whore.
~ William Shakespeare
Laugh yourselves into stitches.
~ William Shakespeare
That's the humor of it.
~ William Shakespeare
Benedick the married man.
~ William Shakespeare
Very tragical mirth.
~ William Shakespeare
I shall laugh myself to death.
~ William Shakespeare
You need to be silly to be funny.
~ William Shatner
But my favorite selfie was when a monkey threw poo at Fred.
~ William Thomas
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
~ William Zinsser
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
~ Wilson Mizner
What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
~ Woody Allen
I'm not a drinker -- my body will not tolerate spirits. I had two Martinis on New Year's Eve and I tried to hijack an elevator and fly it to Cuba.
~ Woody Allen
The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could make half a billion on it. So they were not interested anymore in quality films.... They can't afford to be that risky at those prices. Consequently you're getting a lot of remakes, sequels, dopey comedies full of toilet jokes.
~ Woody Allen
I think if you have a comic perspective, almost anything that happens you tend to put through a comic filter. It's a way of coping in the short term, but has no long term effect and requires constant, endless renewal. Hence people talk of comics who are "always on." It's like constantly drugging your sensibility so you can get by with less pain.
~ Woody Allen
Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
~ Woody Allen
My brain? It's my second favorite organ.
~ Woody Allen
Two hundred and four if you count my marriage.
~ Woody Allen
The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.
~ Woody Allen
I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
~ Woody Allen
It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.
~ Woody Allen
Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.
~ Woody Allen