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Quotes About Comedy

To arouse laughter, his appreciation of the point of the joke must be almost instantaneous, however long he may be in preparing for that appreciation.
~ James Walsh
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
~ Jane Austen
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
~ Jane Austen
Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero, poseedor de una gran fortuna, necesita una esposa.
~ Jane Austen
I dearly love a laugh.
~ Jane Austen
What is his name?
~ Jane Austen
When one has been born and has died many times, expecting extinction with each death, and when this experience is followed by the realization that existence still continues, then a sense of the divine comedy enters in.
~ Jane Roberts
What do you think makes you start laughing and unable to stop?
~ Jane Smiley
You think I'm gonna feel better eatin' a carrot? Get a grip. There's two idiots out there trying to kill me, and you think I'm gonna waste my last breath on a vegetable? (Lula)
~ Janet Evanovich
Good thing he's dead, Lula said, or that would have hurt like the devil.
~ Janet Evanovich
It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the television. When out in the lot there arose such a clatter, they sprang from their recliners to see what was the matter. Away to the window they flew like a flash, tore open the blinds and threw up the sash. And what to their wondering eyes should appear, but Stephanie Plum and yet another of her cars burning front to rear.
~ Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum: Do you have your stun gun and pepper sray? Lula: Does a chicken have a pecker? I could invade Bulgaria with the shit i've got in my handbag.
~ Janet Evanovich
Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now. Valerie - To the Nines
~ Janet Evanovich
Sorry about Bender, Lula said, letting the Trans Am idle at the curb. Maybe we could tell Vinnie he died. We could say we were all set to bring Bender in, and he died. Bang. Dead as a doorknob. Better yet, why don't we just go back and kill him, I said. I opened the door to leave, caught my toe in the floor mat, and fell out of the car, face first. I rolled onto my back and stared up at the stars. I'm fine, I said to Lula. Maybe I'll sleep here tonight.
~ Janet Evanovich
Grandma Mazur stood two feet back from my mother. I gotta get me a pair if those, she said, eyeballing my shorts. I've still got pretty good legs, you know. She raised her skirt and looked down at her knees. What do you think? You think I'd look good in them biker things? Grandma Mazur had knees like doorknobs.
~ Janet Evanovich
Bob had a dog buscuit stuck to his head. How does he always get food stuck to him? I asked Morelli. I don't know, Morelli said. It's a Bob mystery. I think stuff falls out of his mouth and he rolls in it. I'm not sure. -Morelli And Stephanie
~ Janet Evanovich
I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn't be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother.
~ Janet Evanovich
I did such a gigantic eye roll I almost fell over.
~ Janet Evanovich
I smell vampire -Lula You're a Nut -Stephine Well I smell something. -Lula Mold. -Stephine Yeah. I smell moldy vampire -Lula
~ Janet Evanovich
I'd kiss you, but you smell like a gym bag.
~ Janet Evanovich
Even more bothersome was the fact that Eddie Kuntz's napkin was moving on his lap without benefit of hands. My first inclination was to shout Snake! and shoot, but probably that wouldn't hold up in court. Besides, as much as I disliked Eddie Kuntz, I could sort of identify with a man who got a stiffie over banana cream pie.
~ Janet Evanovich
Sliced off like a chicken neck and stuck with a hatpin. Reminded me of my husband." Lula leaned forward so she could whisper. "You talking about size? Was your man's part that big?" "Heck no," Grandma said. "His part was that dead.
~ Janet Evanovich
Is that why you have hand grenades and a garrote in your nightstand? They're sleep aids.
~ Janet Evanovich
Finding out" with Ranger is a whole different deal than finding out with Lula. Lula and I are Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz. Ranger is Batman.
~ Janet Evanovich