Quotes About Comedy

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.

Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

The fun that I've had needs to be seen on the screen. I like the thought of a bunch of people laughing at what I laughed at - because my life is surreal, completely wacko.

I try not to be one particular type of comedian - I try to be foolish, and silly, and surreal, and quite angry and sarcastic and dry.

Working with Ant and Dec is so surreal.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

It was a nice walk, if you liked grunting.

Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States.

Tragedies in hindsight look like farces.

When we're onstage we're not literature, we're sitcom. You have to have catchphrases.

This was one of the differences between the three of us and our new friend, We were essentially taking the piss, except when we were serious. He was essentially serious, except when he was taking the piss. It took us a while to work this out.

Do you think Kinkade is Welland-Dowd? she wondered Chase burst into laughter so booming that every head on the street rotated, startled. Oh,God. She'd just understood when she'd said it aloud. Welland-Dowd. Well-endowed.

Instantly, Lucinda fell to the floor in a swoon - Bronwyn groaned. Not again !

Will had found out the hard way that it's nearly impossible to go to sleep with a flatulent Chihuahua sharing your pillow.

You hear about the two hats hanging on a peg by the door?" She laughed. "No. What about them?" "One says to the other, 'You stay here. I'll go on a head.' 

A standard feature of situation comedy has some form of the main character talking trash to someone about a husband, wife, girl friend, boy friend, boss, or acquaintance, only to see the listener's expression change in a telling way. She's/He's standing right behind me, right? is often the pained question of the speaker. (Loud canned laughter follows.)

heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" – it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present

The gods of Greece, once tragically wounded to death in the chained Prometheus of Æschylus, were fated to die a comic death in Lucian's dialogues

History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical figure is its comedy.

I stopped listening to Justin. I don't think he likes to leave anything as nature intended. He'd iron out the lump on a camel's back and get a pelican to have its throat lifted.

I don't mind watching comedians telling jokes on the telly, as you don't have to react, but if someone tells me a joke to my face I feel under pressure to find it amusing.

To me, I've never understood why there is any question about are women as funny as men.

I love men who make me laugh.

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.