Quotes About Comedy

Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you.

hysterically.

Kate Barlow died laughing.

Don't laugh, Rex," said Mr. Pendanski. "We don't laugh at people's dreams. Someone is going to have to train monkeys for the movies.

In the movies, usually bad ones, when somebody goes on a date, there's almost always a Changing Scene. Somebody in front of a mirror, clothes everywhere. Or popping out of a closet, each time in a different outfit.

His mama is so stupid she thinks Meow Mix is a dance album for cats.

Caspian burst into gales of laughter. "I suppose you were

when beautiful women get angry, it scares people. Ugly women get mad and it's just comical, right?

Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer anyone who believes in it. The invisible spiritual bond which gives it validity, no longer exists, and so the whole age is at once comic and tragic--tragic because it is perishing, comic because it goes on.

I am courteous enough to assume that everyone in this so aesthetically voluptuous age, so potent and aroused that conception occurs as easily as with the partridge which, Aristotle says, needs only to hear the voice of the cock or its flight overhead - to assume that at the mere sound of the word 'concealment' everyone can easily shake a dozen romances and comedies from his sleeve.

It is comic that a mentally disordered man picks up any piece of granite and carries it around because he thinks it is money, and in the same way it is comic that Don Juan has 1,003 mistresses, for the number simply indicates that they have no value. Therefore, one should stay within one's means in the use of the word love.

George Carlin, Brain Droppings

He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.

I make a lot of jokes about vegetarians in my act but most of them don't have the strength to protest.

I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

Humor is a great way to relieve stress.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

I'm sort of known in the comedy community as "Smooth Sailing," just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.