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Quotes About Comedy

The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible.
~ Christian Bale
Le duo Debbie-Simon marchait déjà très fort, mais alors complété par la rythmique Scott-Paul, j'imagine ce que ça a pu donner. Quelque chose comme une saturation de plaisir, qui vous coupe le souffle, vous fait pleurer de rire.
~ Christian Gailly
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
~ Christopher Fry
La vie sert à faire des opéras-comiques.
~ Hector Berlioz
You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.
~ Hector Elizondo
All we marrieds have a marriage chuckle. A marriage chuckle is a fake laugh you bring out when your spouse does something dumb that you have to pretend is charming. My
~ Helen Ellis
It was one of those ones they call screwball comedies, where people mislead and ill-treat each other in the most shocking and baffling way possible, then forgive and forget about it because they happen to like the look of each other. Only they call it falling in love.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
~ Helen Rowland
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
~ Henny Youngman
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
~ Henny Youngman
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
~ Henny Youngman
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
~ Henny Youngman
I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
~ Henny Youngman
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
~ Henny Youngman
My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.
~ Henny Youngman
Take my wife, please.
~ Henny Youngman
Sentar-se no meio de uma fala seria lembrar que se tem corpo. Napoleão, que era psicólogo nas horas vagas, observou que se passa da tragédia à comédia pelo simples fato de se sentar.
~ Henri Bergson
O maior inimigo do riso é a emoção.
~ Henri Bergson
One fool at least in every married couple.
~ Henry Fielding
While we are in the realm of comedy, it is worth recalling that one of the best and best-known episodes of the historical sitcom Blackadder, titled 'Ink and Incapability', confronts this very subject. Its fidelity to history is limited (Jane Austen is Johnson's contemporary, and apparently has 'a beard like a rhododendron'), but its representation of the perils of lexicography is just. The
~ Henry Hitchings
The grate desire ov mi life iz tew amuze sumboddy. I had rather be able to set the multiplikashun table tew sum lively tune than tew hav ein the author ov it.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
~ Henry Youngman
Wolfgang Pauli, to seriously consider quitting in 1925. "For me," he wrote in exasperation to a colleague, "physics is too difficult and I wish that I were a film comedian or something similar and had never heard of physics.
~ Leon M. Lederman
The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch