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Quotes About Comedy

Some of it can, of course. The new satirical shows
~ Nick Hornby
What it was really about was people not having sex when they wanted it. A lot of British comedy was about that, Barbara had noticed.
~ Nick Hornby
I call my wife and tell her I'm going to sleep at the lab. She reminds me that she left me a week ago. Louis tries to crack me up by pantomiming humping a chimp through the cage.
~ Noah Baumbach
Eventually I noticed that the meat loaf had been downgraded slightly to a Tuesday night special, but I was too busy practicing monogamy with the chili to worry about the meat loaf.
~ Nora Ephron
What the hell are you doing?" "What the hell does it look like I'm doing?" "It looks like you're putting pants on that dog." "Then that's what the hell I'm doing.
~ Nora Roberts
Women, they don't know what they're missing when it comes when it comes to the courageous comedy of the Three Stooges. Yes, yes, we do know what we're missing. We miss it on purpose. Conversation between Flynn and Mallory in The Key of Light
~ Nora Roberts
That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the path, he shits right by the door. Why is that? Ryder asked. Owen replied, Hence the name. The name of Ryder's dog...Dumbass...
~ Nora Roberts
Far back in the impulses to find this story is a storyteller's belief that at times life takes on the shape of art and that the remembered remnants of these moments are largely what we come to mean by life. The short semihumours comedies we live, our long certain tragedies, and our springtime lyrics and limericks make up most of what we are. they become almost all of what we remember of ourselves.
~ Norman Maclean
Seinfeld was the most popular, most transformative live-action show on television. It altered the language and shifted comedic sensibilities, and almost every random episode was witnessed by more people than the 2019 finale of Game of Thrones.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The Brady Bunch Movie, released in February of 1995
~ Chuck Klosterman
No one has ever honestly said, "I hate that this joke exists, even though it's clearly hilarious." It
~ Chuck Klosterman
Todos nós crescemos vendo os mesmos programas de TV. É como se tivéssemos os mesmos implantes artificiais de memória. Não nos recordamos de quase nada da nossa verdadeira infância, mas nos lembramos de tudo o que aconteceu com as mesmas famílias dos seriados de comédia. Temos os mesmos objetivos básicos. Todos nós temos os mesmos medos.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
my father for advice he'd tell you, "The secret to being a successful comedian is to never stop talking until you hear someone laugh." Meaning: Persevere. Meaning: Be determined. Make just one person laugh; then leverage that person and that joke into more laughter. As some people decide you're funny, increasing numbers of people will begin to agree.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Komik olabilir ama en trajik yang?n bile asl?nda süregelen kimyasal bir tepkimedir. Jan Dark'?n oksidasyonudur.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To me, comedians are the last great storytellers because they depict their stories and create their effect with so few words. In the span of a couple minutes, stand-up comics can communicate more emotion than most novels do in hours worth of reading.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How many bodybuilders does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It takes four. One bodybuilder to screw in the bulb, and three others to watch and say, "Really, dude, you look huge!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'd like to see more stand-up routines venture into depicting tragedy. It's conventional to give people a humorous cathartic release; now I'd love to hear stand-up tragedy that would reduce the audience to exhausted tears.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You wanted to show us…a battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire. A mechanical comedy of errors.
~ Chuck Wendig
Dang, that sounds like a fucking movie and shit. Sleep Hard 4: Sleep Harder.
~ Chuck Wendig
In tragedy anything comic is a blemish and in comedy anything tragic is ugly
~ Cicero
Hey, if you're going to sleep in the middle of the road, I'm going to sit on you.
~ CLAMP
Sung to the tune of O Christmas Tree O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree, But it was eaten by a newt, And now I have no cuddly fruit, O woe is me, O woe is me, I used to have a hamster tree!
~ Clive Barker
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.
~ Virginia Woolf
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers who have, as she has, an overpowering personality, so that . . . they only have to open the door to make themselves felt. There is in them some untamed ferocity perpetually at war with the accepted order of things
~ Virginia Woolf