Quotes About Comedy

Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, even this one, that did not strike me as containing at least some element of the human comedy.

at that instant i knew there was no horror the world could offer - no war, no genocide, no famine, no childhood cancer - to which Sidney Kroll would not see the funny side

I make some jokes about it, but they're not funny and just add to the depression.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

Well, I thought it was funny. -Stephen Colbert

Strong Phillip, able to lift overweight nymphomaniacs with both hands. Harvey

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

Neither one of them has toilet paper stuck to her boots. Where is the justice?

Do you know that I saw a picture of myself and genuinely thought that someone had eaten a powdered doughnut over my head?

Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.

The funniest people are the saddest once

It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

What a sad business is being funny!

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

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.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

People think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things.

Unfortunately, the small comedies I've done have hardly seen the light of day, which is kinda sad. Dirty Girl was a lot of fun, and I'm so glad it got picked up in Toronto. People really liked it!

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.