Quotes About Comedy

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

flashed one of those grins of his which always made people think he'd been overdoing things recently and should try to get some rest.

But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?" "You think you've got problems," said Marvin

If you absolutely had to have sex with one of the Three Stooges, who would it be?

Federal and provincial politicians were about as functional and helpful as Peter, Chris, Stewie and Brian Griffin drinking ipecac together on Family Guy.

In the midst of tragedy we start the comedy.

It's odd, isn't it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?

I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.

I'm afraid I always find Shakespeare terribly dreary. All those long scenes where everybody is drunk and it's supposed to be funny.

Inspector Hardcastle walked in manfully. Unfortunately for him he was one of those men who have cat allergy. As usually happens on these occasions all the cats immediately made for him. One jumped on his knee, another rubbed affectionately against his trousers. Detective Inspector Hardcastle, who was a brave man, set his lips and endured.

My dear Boris, can you not take a joke?" "Was it a joke?

To play the comedy successfully, you must put the heart into it.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Rumack Yes I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

Gohan...Is that sunburn or are you blushing?

Oh I get it. Krillian, you have a crush on Android Eighteen!

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

For some reason, leatherbound copies of the goings-on in Congress lined the shelves of our living room, and I pored over them when I was 12. I had never read anything so funny," Alda said. "From then on, I knew I wanted to do comedy.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Three hard of hearing guys are at a street corner. The first one says, 'Brrrr, it's windy!' The second one says, 'No, it's Thursday.' The third one says, 'Me too, let's get a drink.