Quotes About Comedy

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

What doesn't polite society, in all seriousness, want to discuss? Sex, money, political corruption, bodily functions, religion, loss and despair? These have been the very subjects attracting writers of comedy since Aristophanes penned "Lysistrata" as a vehicle for the young Joan Rivers.

Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.'

Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body's dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough and that pops out) against which the nuances of the victim's personality count for nothing has in it one of the roots of comedy—the spirit's subservience to the flesh. You can cut a head off and shove it in a bag, stick it on a pole, play volleyball or footie with it. Hilarious, among other things.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

I was the only "girl writer," probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls show that what women fear most from men is violence, and what men fear most from women is ridicule. Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.

the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls

that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

The ridiculous arises out of a moral contrast, in which two things are brought together before the mind in an innocent way.

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.

TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.

Os espectadores às vezes riem bastante durante as cenas mais sinistras de Macbeth, Roger me contara certa vez. Por quê?, eu perguntara. Porque coisas horríveis são engraçadas.

Homer: I downloaded an app! It's for those audio books! Sluggo: You're going to teach your ears to read?!

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate...

When a cow laughs, does milk come out her nose?

I would watch either Michael Cera doing comedy or Louis CK doing stand-up. This would

Comedians are the best public speakers and are up against the most brutal audiences, so you must study them. Learn from them.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you are worth 100,000 pictures. I compare comedian

Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.

On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'

My uncle is a hemophiliac, and my brother is one as well. I am a carrier, and it's a disease that my kids also deal with. It's something that has affected my family and I for so long, and I think it's actually what drove me to comedy as a means to cope during tough times.