Quotes About Comedy

If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

My Favorite Husband,

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

It was like I was in an SNL sketch about the over-singing pop-star mom.

Now, anybody who's seen me sing or even tell a joke knows I have the facial expressions of Jim Carrey.

I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.

She's as funny as a toothache

I ran into the driveway, my husband said, "I thought you were supposed to be walking." "I was," I panted, "until I ran out of Twinkies to hold off the dogs.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

We are very serious so we can make very strong jokes.

An ugly face,' he said to the glass. 'Did you ever see a more ugly face?' 'Yes,' said Arnaldo. 'Mine. Every morning when I shave.' 'We both ought to shave in the dark,' the Colonel told him and went out the door.

Those who see Show Boat as the progenitor of the form mistake its epic grandeur for its essence. No: most of Show Boat inheres in the zany frivolity of musical comedy, though revisions have been stamping out much of the fun since 1946. Still, the comic nature of Captain Andy and other leads and the use of dance as decoration rather than interpretation place Show Boat in a category of its own.

Unlike Grand Hotel and Titanic, but like The Wild Party and Sweet Smell of Success, our last special show was a failure. However, the previous two titles at least ran a few months. Amour (2002) lasted two weeks. This is a historically instructive show even so in its return to first principles, as a modern version of what Jacques Offenbach was doing when he invented musical comedy in the 1850s and '60s: not in his format but in his spirit.

All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone in the afternoons. My sense of making fictional comedy undoubtedly first caught its spark from the antic pantomime of the silent screen, and from having a kindred soul to laugh with.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

This is funny," she says without a trace of laughter.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

But, just between us, don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again." "You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?" "No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark." "I thought it would be amusing.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

Laughter is the best medicine.

A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on YouTube and gets around. It's always something you're thinking about unconsciously.