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Quotes About Comedy

Ri, Anaïs», diz Fred. «Henry diz que adora ouvir-te rir, que tu és a única mulher que possui o sentido da alegria, uma tolerância comedida»
~ Anais Nin
I've got a theory. Now, hear me out. It's that our lives are half comedy and half tragedy. And for some people, it just works out that the first entire half of their lives is tragedy and then the second half is comedy.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
one could sit back with a bag of popcorn and watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face, and the lenses of his tortoiseshell glasses swirled with his thoughts like the iridescent membranes of soap bubbles.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
I think in a 1980s comedy version, Steve Martin would be a Pilgrim who's, like, cursed by a witch and time-travels and ends up very, very tiny living inside my skull. And the witch is Lily Tomlin and she's immortal and now she's running an oil company I work for or something.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
BARKY THE BARKING DOG SHOW
~ Andy Griffiths
His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
~ Samuel Johnson
Catechism.3. Recovery of health. Your honour's players hearing your amendment,Are come to play a pleasant comedy.Shakesp.Tam. Shrew.
~ Samuel Johnson
But when he sat down for a moment on the bed, all the comedy of it was snatched away and torn to pieces. He was wrong about the woman's expression: he was trying to transform it into something he could bear. The truth was probably far different. He had started out to see what had happened with her eyes and had ended by substituting his own, thus contriving to put her on his side.
~ Saul Bellow
If you go to movies, choose the funny ones first and avoid anything you know will end on a sad note.
~ Scott Adams
Some humor experts say the secret to humor is to combine something unexpected with something bad and then make sure it's happening to someone else. But if that's all it took, serial killers would be winning comedy competitions.
~ Scott Adams
The human butt is the single funniest thing in the known universe. This is undisputed.
~ Scott Dikkers
O via?? f?r? iubire, f?r? vecin?tatea celui iubit nu e decât o comédie à tiroirs, o proast? comedie cu sert?ra?e. Le tragi afar? unul dup? altul ?i le împingi iar??i la loc, trecând în grab? la cel?lalt. Tot ce se petrece, fie chiar bun ?i însemnat, abia dac? se înl?n?uie. Trebuie pretutindeni s-o iei de la început ?i ai vrea pretutindeni s? termini.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The view that a peptic ulcer may be the hole in a man's stomach through which he crawls to escape from his wife has fairly wide acceptance.
~ John Allan Dalrymple Anderson
It wasn't that funny, but I laughed. There wouldn't be much laughter in the world if people didn't like each other, because there sure as shit aren't that many good jokes.
~ John Barnes
Zorunluluk hem tragedya hem de komedya üretir. ÖptüÄŸünüz ya da kafan?z? çarpt???n?z ÅŸeydir." sayfa 27
~ John Berger
Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
~ John Cage
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
~ John Cleese
Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?
~ John Cleese
He who laughs most, learns best
~ John Cleese
How to defend yourself against a banana
~ John Cleese
Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?
~ John Connolly
The Ukrainians voted for a comedian and got a leader. A man with an unerring moral compass. We in the UK also voted for a comedian and got exactly that. Except his act had long since stopped being funny. It never occurred to us that the world was going to get this serious. First Covid. Then this.
~ John Crace
But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.
~ John Cusack
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
~ John Cusack