Quotes About Comedy

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you know he's still available.

I never was so immensely tickled by anything I had ever said before. I actually woke up twice during the night, and laughed till the bed shook.

Some people seem quite destitute a sense of humour.

I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye

[Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dullness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness yet to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher.

A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

I've learned that when you get to be a certain age, you can get away with saying a lot of things, some of which wouldn't even be remotely funny if someone forty years younger said them. The Golden Girls ran for years off the same theory and basically used the same four jokes for seven marvelous seasons.

our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

I dream about 'Cheers.' Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it.

Well," said Larry with dignity, "it may give you pleasure to be woken at half-past three in the morning by a pigeon who seems intent on pushing his rectum into your eye...

Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?

I don't know what humor is.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

You might say he was one taco short of a combination platter.

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.

His toupee makes him look twenty years sillier.

I've put on a lot of weight... I only weighed six and a half pounds when I was born.