Quotes About Comedy

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

It hardly can be called a sin, If something's funny and you grin! …

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

Control was the basis of all humor. Even at its most innocent, what was a joke or a clever comment if not a way to take control? To become King of the Moment.

We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

Reid interrupted. "What kind of jokes are we talking about?" We all looked at each other, not sure what to say. Reid tried again, looking at his notes. "It says here, 'Franken made jokes about the Holocaust.' What does that mean?" Diane handed our poll to Harry and pointed to the joke we had tested: "I think a bad Hanukkah gift for Anne Frank would have been a drum set."*

Either way, senators certainly do a lot less drugs than we did at SNL.

Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn't be allowed to joke about, that there are words that can't be said no matter the context, you're selling out the very idea of comedy.

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

Laurie:Uh-huh. Ahuhuhuh... Jeez, y'know, that felt good. There don't seem to be that many laughs around these days. Dan: Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains...

Una novela de amor- horror, que pone al desnudo el otro lado, a la vez sórdido y revelador, siniestro y desopilante, de esa comedia que los seres humanos llaman «pareja».

Of course not. It's only funny when it happens to other people. I'd have thought that was obvious.

Hello?" Hello, Mom. No, of course you didn't wake me. Don't you know? I often engage in Monday morning orgies In fact, as you called, I was just enjoying an especially thorough rogering from two men named Paolo and Butch.

I couldn't tell a joke if my life depended on it.

I had to choose, I'd be so sad. They are flip sides of the same coin. I love both comedy and drama.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Oh," he cried. "A broken heart have you! I have falling arches, flying dandruff, a floating kidney, shattered nerves and a broken heart!

One day I was standing with my stage manager, Sandy Prudden, and Buddy Sheffield watching as Kermit the Frog (with the help of the late Jim Henson) sweetly sang a song. Sandy was always a big joker. He sidled up to me and said, "Isn't it amazing the way Kermit can sing like that with somebody's hand up his ass." Without missing a beat, I came back with, "Shoot, that ain't nothin'. I did that for seven years on the 'The Porter Wagoner Show.

I asked this one girl out, and she said, "You got a friend?" I said yes; she said, "Then go out with him."

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.