Quotes About Comedy

It's really a music hall act that we do.

The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you're in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them.

Richie and Eddie couldn't exist without each other. They're two halves of the same person.

When you're a comedian, and you show up on set to a job where you're not writing, and you get handed material that's as good as we do on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' you just feel lucky every day.

Computers can never completely replace humans. They may become capable of artificial intelligence, but they will never master real stupidity.

Woman: Did you know that women are smarter than men? Man: No, I didn't. Woman: See what I mean?

A comedy isn't about being funny, said Mrs. Baker. We talked about this before. A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know. Suppose you can't see it? That's the daring part, said Mrs. Baker.

If she got tired of the writer, she could probably marry a short, heavyset man on the middle rungs of private equity.

Only rarely had Barry seen women combine humor with success.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it. . . . Just be real, and it will be funnier.

in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness...

Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye, Ther God thi makere yet, er that he dye, So sende myght to make in som comedye! But litel book, no makyng thow n'envie, But subgit be to alle poesye; And kis the steppes where as thow seest pace Virgile, Ovide, Omer, Lucan, and Stace.

he has this huge blind spot where other people have a sense of humor.

In the sacrifice the sacrifice identifies with the animal receiving the blow. Thus he dies while seeing himself die, and even by his own will, at one with the sacrificial arm. But it's a comedy.

In the sacrifice the sacrificer identifies with the animal receiving the blow. Thus he dies while seeing himself die, and even by his own will, at one with the sacrificial arm. But it's a comedy

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR: 'Please stop sucking my dick or I'll call the police.

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

I, myself, have killed six people. All random, all undetected, no way to trace them to me. And, let me tell you, there's nothin' like it. It's a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you're thinking. 'Aw, he's a comedian. He's just sayin' that stuff.' Good. That's exactly what I want you to think.

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver.

I hate Dr Phil. Dr Phil told me to express my feelings, so I'm expressing them.