Quotes About Comedy

Pain is funnier than love.

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food. She goes on tuesdays, I go Fridays.

There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.

I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

Josh [Gad] does such an amazing job playing a lovable idiot. Not many people can do that, as convincingly as he can.

Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone.

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go up-stairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

We were not a happy couple, and not a miserable couple. We were six of one and half-a-dozen of the other. How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go upstairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Walpole, that life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish.

What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...

I got to belch my witch; she's done eating by now.

DOC    (Goes into living room) 'Bout time for Fibber McGee and Molly.