Quotes About Comedy

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time.

Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.

I have since found that almost everybody in the meat business is funny —just as almost everyone in the fish business is not.

Gathered round the bucket of coke that burned in front of the shelter, several figures were swinging arms against bodies and rubbing hands together with large, pantomimic gestures: like comedians giving formal expression to the concept of extreme cold.

Short, square, cleanshaven, his head seemed carved out of an elephant's tusk, the whole massive cone of ivory left more or less complete in its original shape, eyes hollowed out deep in the roots, the rest of the protuberance accommodating his other features, terminating in a perfectly colossal nose that stretched directly forward from the totally bald cranium. The nose was preposterous, grotesque, slapstick, a mask from a Goldoni comedy.

No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader's heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, --truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational.

Sometimes it seems that for nineteenth-century Russian writers, food was what landscape (or maybe class?) was for the English. Or war for the Germans, love for the French - a subject encompassing the great themes of comedy, tragedy, ecstasy, and doom.

Socrate. Tiens-tu quelque chose ? Strepsiade. Non, par Zeus, non certes. Socrate. Rien du tout ? Strepsiade. Rien... que ma verge dans ma main droite.

shit yourself

LYSISTRATA All right then— we have to give up all male penises. [The women react with general consternation]

In the first half of the play he is the anti-heroic and burlesque figure long familiar in comedy and satyr drama.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

And by this very difference tragedy stands apart in relation to comedy, for the latter intends to imitate those who are worse, and the former better, than people are now.

Comedy, as we said, is an imitation of people of a lower sort, though not in respect to every vice; rather, what is ridiculous is part of what is ugly.