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Quotes About Comedy

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.
~ Bo Burnham
Laughter is the best medicine in the world.
~ Milton Berle
I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.
~ Elliott Gould
My best friend ran away with my wife, and let me tell you, I miss him.
~ Henny Youngman
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
~ Rowan Atkinson
I got a Valentine's Day card from my girl. It said, 'Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!' Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.
~ Robert Orben
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
~ Simon Pegg
To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.
~ Ronnie Barker
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.
~ Judd Apatow
Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.
~ Jon Lovitz
The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.
~ Ray Romano
The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
~ Chevy Chase
I think the best advice I'd say to any actor when you do comedy is play it straight.
~ Ricky Gervais
If you look at 'The Best Man, ' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.
~ Malcolm D. Lee
I think the best romantic comedies don't have villains.
~ Nicholas Stoller
And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
~ Norman Jewison
I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.
~ Chris Rock
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
~ Melissa De Sousa
Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.
~ Danny McBride
I would have loved to do romantic comedies. That's what I think I would be best at.
~ Rene Russo
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
~ Henny Youngman
My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.
~ Wendy Liebman