Quotes About Comedy

that Lady Herrick has a birthmark in the shape of a butterfly on her left buttock. Oh, and that said birthmark turns an interesting shade of lavender when slapped." Apollo stopped in the hallway outside the breakfast room and simply stared at his companion. "What?" Montgomery looked irritated. "I defy any man to not take the opportunity when presented to slap a lovely arse.

That didn't surprise me; any man with a grain of sense knows that marriage is the only way, these days, to acquire a full-time maid who works twenty-five hours a day. with no time off and no pay except room and board.

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Nothing comic isn't serious.

I only joke about really serious things

He turns to go—and that's when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it's slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It's a surrealist vision of hell. What's surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.

I remember attending a Friars roast for Muhammad Ali when Don Rickles grabbed me and walked me up to Sinatra. "Hey, Frank," he said to the Chairman of the Board, "tonight I'm sitting with this guy. You know why? Because he fills up baseball stadiums! You play bars." Frank laughed and waved him off, with me standing there silently. Soon

I have a dark sense of humor,' Fanny explained. 'What's that supposed to mean?' asked Honor. 'It means I'm funny once you get to know me,' Fanny said.

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

If you're right and my life sucks, I'll just have to marry an ugly, old billionaire. The first time he sees me naked, which will be on our honeymoon, he'll have a heart attack and die. I'll inherit his entire fortune. You can be my chauffeur.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

It took a rare person to appreciate a good Elmer Fudd line.

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

Very rarely are you going to see a story about a comic winning a fight. Yeah we're all degenerates in some way and we're all awful people, so we just show our weaknesses.

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a defense. It was a weapon so that you can't hurt me.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens everybody.

I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

But the worst feeling as a crowd work practitioner is that not only is crowd work, for me, the most fun thing to do on stage - I always say the less written jokes I tell in a set the more fun I was having--but it's also a secret weapon.

I love the 'Lethal Weapon' movies.