Quotes About Comedy

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

It's a match made in heaven...by a retarded angel.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Bir yatakta do?ar, bir yatakta ölürüz. ?nsan soyunun ilginç dramlar?, gülünç komedileri ve korkunç trajedileri oynad??? gerçek sahnedir buras?. Çiçeklerle süslü bir be?iktir; A?k Tanr?ças?'n?n taht?d?r; mezard?r.

Een bed ziet ons geboren worden en ziet ons doodgaan; het is een wisselend toneel waar het mensdom beurtelings boeiende drama's, lachwekkende kluchten en afschuwelijke treurspelen opvoer. - Het is een met bloemen versierde wieg; - het is de troon der liefde; - het is een graf.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same thing. The former is among the least important things in the world, while the latter is among the most. One is a handy social tool, the other an integral component of human survival. It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play Brahms last night, I would ask you who won.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

It's funny because it's funny.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

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