Quotes About Comedy

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

The funniest things are the forbidden.

Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world often a deeply felt rage.

One night, as he wiped ketchup from a pillowcase, I declared, 'Dear God, Alan, we're almost like an old married couple, except we don't have sex.' 'No, Sandi,' he replied, 'we're exactly like an old married couple.

Well, the most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. I had seen all these people before me who are great performers and were reflective of their time--Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers and Totie Fields and all the early comediennes--and it was always like, "I'm fat! I'm ugly! My husband has to put a bag over my head when he comes to bed!" I was like, "I'm never gonna do that."

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

Thanks a bunch, brother. Remind me to thank you with a fist in your fool face.

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All forms of comedy are terrifying.

Satire is tragedy plus time.

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

If I offend anybody tonight, I apologize. That's not my intention. I'm not going to guess what your personal line of decency is; I cross my own from time to time - it's how I know I still have one.

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.

One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bellhop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife!

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.

I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!

I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.