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Quotes About Comedy

Gert: What... what just happened? Chase: I don't know, but guess who totally stole Cookie Monster's glasses! Gert: Whew, for a second there, I was worried we almost learned something. Chase: Ooo, look at me! I'm a big fluffy nerd!
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Sai, negli ultimi mesi ho mangiato tante di quelle pesche in scatola, che ieri notte ho praticamente cacato una crostata.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
You want another one? Oh, I don't know: I've already had two whole, entire Fig Newtons. Maybe I could try to muscle one more down but I don't think I - Mmmm, I am stuffed to the wrappers! They're nuts. We got an ER here. We got a three Fig Newton eater. How many did he have? What is he nuts? Doesn't he read?
~ Brian Regan
It's called 'You Just Don't Exist.' I'm co-starring with Winifred Hailey. It's like, a romantic comedy.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley
There are so many beautiful girls around that after a while you start looking for someone who can make you laugh
~ Candace Bushnell
I don't know. There are so many beautiful girls around, that after a while you start looking for someone, who can make you laugh.
~ Candace Bushnell
This is a show of the shit variety
~ Carl Hiaasen
Tonight's feature starred the commander-in-chief himself. Angie had been summoned to Casa Bellicosa to unfasten a screech owl from the presidential pompadour, which the low-swooping raptor had mistaken for a road-kill fox.
~ Carl Hiaasen
His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.
~ Carl Hiaasen
MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull.
~ Teresa Medeiros
MarkBaynard: You know what they say- dying is easy; comedy is hard.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Quando os espetadores de uma comédia riem às gargalhadas, estão a responder a uma situação no palco, mas também à boa-disposição uns dos outros, deleitando-se com essa solidariedade de som e com a fraternidade momentânea que ela fomenta.
~ Terry Eagleton
A comédia representa uma ameaça para o poder soberano não só por causa do seu pendor anárquico, mas também por fazer pouco de questões tão importantes como o sofrimento e a morte, diminuindo assim a força de algumas das sanções judiciais que as classes governantes tendem a ter na manga. Ela pode fomentar uma despreocupação temerária que afrouxa o poder da autoridade.
~ Terry Eagleton
The situation was rather like that of the mid-twentieth century, when the old vaudeville comedians – with their distinctive repertoire of hand-me-down material culled from many years of touring music halls – found themselves displaced by the university-educated satirists of the television age who wrote their own fresh material every week.
~ Terry Jones
Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
~ Terry Pratchett
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
~ Terry Pratchett
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
~ Terry Pratchett
The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.
~ Terry Pratchett
Look out! He's got a daisy!
~ Terry Pratchett
Laughter can get through the keyhole while seriousness is still hammering on the door.
~ Terry Pratchett
You Don't Have To Be Pitilessly Sadistic To Work Here But It Helps!
~ Terry Pratchett
We're really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.
~ Terry Pratchett
I've actually phased out the misogynistic jokes because I used to think that everyone knew that I was joking.
~ Jim Jefferies
A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then saying something obviously joking.
~ Patti Harrison