Quotes About Comedy

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Events which seem to us dramatic are nothing more than subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy according to the bent of our characters.

This short novel is the opening work of the Scènes de la vie privée, the first volume of La Comédie humaine. The novella was originally entitled Gloire et Malheur (Glory and Misfortune) when it was written in 1829. Published by Mame-Delaunay in the following year, it was followed by four revised editions. The final edition was published by Furne in 1842, appearing under the title of La Maison du chat-qui-pelote.

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

I don't think I'm funny.

I love romantic comedies.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

It's the perfect solution. We argue all the time. We can't stand each other. It's like we're already married.

Comedy as dissent or any art form as dissent is going to be our last safety valve.

Vampires, they're like the gift that won't stop giving. It's a good fruitful place to find comedy because they take themselves so seriously.

And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.

I probably remember more about 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' than Dick Van Dyke does.

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was a huge influence on me as a kid. It looked like a really fun job.

'The Dick Van Dyke Show' was the most fun I ever had and the most creative period of my life.

I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'

If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.

I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'

I look at the things that Dick Van Dyke and Danny Kaye do on television, and I think: Maybe I could do that. And I never miss a Jack Lemmon picture.

My dad would have me watch the shows that he liked. I watched 'I Love Lucy.' I watched 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I watched 'M*A*S*H' and 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Bob Newhart' and 'Taxi' and 'Cheers.'

Within comedy, macabre is the root, and a lot of art - Goya, Bosch, Dali - is macabre. Even Van Gogh, if he paints a chair, there's an element of the macabre within it.

Every impression that I do is just a terrible variation on an awful Bill Cosby impression. You're doing an Australian accent, but it's just Australian Bill Cosby; or that's just British Bill Cosby; that's Pirate Bill Cosby.

I love musical comedy; I love comedy in general, and I have varied taste in terms of books, film, theatre, and culture.