Quotes About Comedy

that theatrical formality invented to heighten the effect of a comedy called the signature of the contract

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman.

Laughing brains are more absorbent.

for the clown himself imitated the serious characters

Humor, like Death, has all seasons for his own.

You must be joking.' 'I save my jokes for those with a sense of humour.

Children think sex is funny

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him he was funny.

It took me a moment to realize he was joking. He was very dry. He didn't even smile at his own jokes, let alone laugh at them. Didn't give you any clues he was being funny. Oh

By the time Gilbert and I reached home we felt like two hydrants in unfortunate proximity to a kennel.

Do you know why the arithmetic book was so sad? A: It had so many problems inside!

Q: Two pennies were talking to each other. Do you know what one of them said to the other one?

A raccoon could have been trained to do better than I was doing, though it would have to be a smart raccoon.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Wagner: Ich hab es öfters rühmen hören, Ein Komödiant könnt einen Pfarrer lehren. Faust: Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein Komödiant ist; Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.

With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.