Quotes About Comedy

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Katerina, do you ever watch a comedy show on TV? At the end of one of those 30-minute shows, the credits roll. About 75 people have worked on that show, and only sometimes the shows are funny. I am one man alone. Given the odds, you are lucky if you get a single chuckle out of me. You're lucky if I even make you smile.

Take my last wife. We get on like a house on fire. Last week she took me out to a splendid dinner, she buys me presents, calls me 'old bean' and even phones the Coach and Horses to see whether I've snuffed it or not. But final and damning proof of the failure of our divorce is that she still laughs at my jokes. I wouldn't swap her for a wife.

Humor can give you the edge you are looking for.

appears at my side. "Yeah, we wouldn't want her bursting into flames," he whispers, and we both giggle quietly.

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.

I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of a husband.

I swear, Tiff, if my ass made good grades, you'd want to date my ass.

A romantic comedy has to be funny and make you think about life but the obstacle that has to be overcome is key.

Oh God. I'm jealous of farts.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

She wondered what he looked like with his hat off and wondered again if he knew he was funny.

Artemis: I am not buoyed by that. Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized. Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.

Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.

So, Mo," said Loafers, chuckling as if that simple rhyme was the funniest joke he had ever made. (Sadly, it was.)

Did you bring any food? I haven't eaten for, wow, it must be minutes.

La vie est une tragédie : autant la vivre en comédie.

I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.

But when I turn up the volume on the TV no laugh track is playing.

Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also.