Quotes About Comedy

Humor doesn't come out of the good times, it comes out of the anger, pain and sorrow. Always the anger.

The revelation that personal truth can be the foundation of comedy, that outrageousness can be cleansing and healthy…

But if the kid is really, really, really ugly, I'll think What the hell? and just give up and say, 'Where'd you buy the crib?

I hate everyone, starting with myself. (Title of her autobiography.

you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.

but I think comedy is more aggressive than that. It is a medium for revenge. We can deflate and punish the pomposity and the rejection which hurt us. Comedy is power.

Babe, I nearly shot Skid in the ass one time because a spider fell on me while I was holding a gun," I finally managed to say. "Those things freak me right the hell out. They got eight fuckin' legs, and that ain't natural. That's some Dr. Seuss shit right there.

If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

He'd try to keep it light. "Kate, if you're going to call my border collie your baby every time you see her, maybe we should marry and make the poor dog legit.

Hurray', shouted Glokta. 'Porridge again!'He looked over at the motionless Practical. 'Porridge and honey, better than money, everything's funny, with porridge and honey!

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." —MEL BROOKS

Then, life went back to normal. That's what people say when nothing happens, right? When you forget your New Year's resolutions, when you abandon your dreams of freedom (why leave when my room was just repaired?) and greatness (why resume my studies when my computer's raking in money for me like a one-armed bandit?), and when you drink like a fish and run around making comedies that aren't romantic at all.

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

I'm terrible at practical jokes. I do them too well, so they're not funny. I end up saying, 'Oh, no, I'm joking, I'm joking.'

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all.

a man complicates his life by the pursuit of a fancied ideal which, when attained, proves comically different from his expectations.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Some people are like Slinkies … not really good for anything, but you can't help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

When I first started doing stand-up back in Philadelphia, the idea of being a professional writer was completely beyond me. It didn't even occur to me that that was something you could do.

I'm pretty sure 'Nutty Professor' will happen to me at some point. And when it does, I will go to the gym.

It's funny, because when I was in college, all my professors said, 'You should do comedy.' And I was like, 'No! No!' But I was able to get my foot in the door through comedy. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to do it.

When I was on 'Mad TV,' I figured my parents were watching, and that was it. It wasn't 'Saturday Night Live,' so it didn't really have the same high profile.