Quotes About Comedy

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Comedy is about flaws anyway... There's a lot of humor in the dark areas of life.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

Within any drama in anyone's life, there's always a way to find the humor in it. Without humor no one cares about whatever drama is going on.

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

My whole life I try to make into a comedy, so it would be nice to see that onscreen.