Quotes About Comedy

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc.

death by banana peel or pratfall or (my favorite, I confess) onstage, like the actor Harold Norman, killed in 1947 during an especially energetic sword fight in the last scene of Macbeth. There is also the particularly unwelcome death

Happiness does not create humor. There's nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor. Krazy Kat getting hit on the head by a brick from Ignatz Mouse is funny. All the sad things happening to Charlie Chaplin are funny. It's funny because it's not happening to us.

Charlie Brown got hit with a line-drive!" "Does anyone here know anything about first-aid?" "It's probably not serious... Second or third-aid will do.

I think I know what's wrong with you... Walk up onto that pitcher's mound... Does your stomach hurt now?" "Yes! Ow! Ooo! Yes!" "All right, now come down off the mound... There... Has it stopped hurting?" "Yes... Yes, I think it has!" "There's your trouble... Five cents, please!

There's our excuse... we'll blame everything on the round-headed kid!

What did the plate say to the napkin? "Dinner is on me.

Heat magazine - the tittering idiot's lunchbreak-pamphlet-of-choice - has caused a bad stink by printing a collection of comedy stickers in its latest issue. Said stickers are clearly designed to be stuck round the fringes of computer monitors by the magazine's bovine readership in a desperate bid to transform their veal-fattening workstation pen into a miniature Chuckle Kingdom and thereby momentarily distract them from the bleak futility of their wasted, Heat-reading lives

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

A day without laughing is a day wasted.

life is a tragedy up close, but a comedy in long-shot.

did not have to read books to know that the theme of life is conflict and pain. Instinctively, all my clowning was based on this. My means of contriving comedy plot was simple. It was the process of getting people in and out of trouble.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

Swetland remembered, "Ficus declared that if anyone asked what the Big O51 of anything was, he was simply going to say, 'I'm far too handsome to answer that question.