Quotes About Comedy

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

A wicked sense of humor, this one.

We may not care to play the part of public jesters ourselves, but the least we can do is to be grateful to those who are willing to become absurd for our benefit. Patronize them daintily, therefore, lest they backslide into propriety.

I've seriously got to stop turning my girlfriends gay, but like I can really help it. It's my animal appeal.

My Zombie Ate Your Honor Student

Sorry, Keys, but raisins are the result of nature taking a shit.

Comedy is basically truthful.

Each joke suffers in comparison to its neighbors.

No joke will work if you have to furnish a detailed explanation with it.

Writing good humor requires a considerable amount of imagination and a great deal of discipline.

Part of a comedian's entertainment value is that he can say things that normal people either can't or won't say.

When in doubt about a joke, drop it. Its easier to write a new joke than it is to get new friends.

Localizing your comedy always multiplies its humor content because the audience members feel like they're sharing the stage with you.

There are very few good judges of comedy. The rest of us are guessing.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

if the thing you're doing is really funny, you don't need to "act funny" while doing it.

A capacity for comedy reveals a capacity for creativity. It plays upon our intense neophilia. It circumvents our tendencies towards boredom. Creativity is a reliable indicator of intelligence, energy, youth, and proteanism. Humor is attractive, and that is why it evolved.

In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature.

The Seven Year Itch

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.