Quotes About Comedy

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

I like someone who laughs, but not all the time, and not too loud. I like it when someone laughs at the world, and not at someone in particular — when some particularly absurd thing happens, not just someone falling down.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Surely, you must be joking," Aech said. "No, I am not joking. And don't call me Shirley.

It wasn't a horse. It was a man banging two coconut halves together. Then I knew where I was. Inside the first scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Another of Halliday's favorite films

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder

I studied Monty Python. And not just Holy Grail, either. Every single one of their films, albums, and books, and every episode of the original BBC series. (Including those two "lost" episodes they did for German television.)

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Today, I made a log of farts.

Some of the finest comedies have chosen the Church as its subject and would indeed make most Christians laugh, give or take the occasional wince as a barb goes home. I have very fond memories of 'Our Man at St Marks' and long for the day when it is released on DVD but I won't hold my breath.

When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it.

Bernie Mac is relentless. That's one thing I like about him. He's not PC. He doesn't care what you think. He's going out there to please that audience.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

The stuff we're seeing in 'Deadpool' and 'Harley Quinn' now, Plastic Man was doing in the 1940s. It's a character that was ahead of its time back then and the stories are still funny and still relevant.

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

You look for comic relief in difficult times.

I provide a little comic relief.

Everybody kind of looks to comedians and comedy for relief and a fresh breath about what is going on in the world.