Quotes About Comedy

For me, if I were to be at home in any kind of style, it is more comedy than anything else.

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one of the most appealing things about comedy for me, so I do really have an affection for it.

'The Flintstones' was the first animated series to appear on nighttime TV.

I like proper jokes. I don't like people who get applause because the audience agree with them.

Directors were apprehensive in trying comedy with me.

My wife happens to be probably the greatest working woman in comedy. I can't think of anyone who even approaches her achievements and her abilities.

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

Doing stand-up in front of arenas or clubs is something else; it's not a talent I have.

I love 'Arrested Development.'

I love doing my podcast, but it's not my art form. I don't have to work on it. It's off the cuff.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'

I give the worst possible relationship advice to people. I am not ashamed.

Marriage," said Butscha, "is like a lawsuit; there's always one side discontented. If one dupes the other, certainly half the husbands in the world are playing a comedy at the expense of the other half." "From which you conclude, Sieur Butscha?" inquired Modeste. "To pay the utmost attention to the manoeuvres of the enemy," answered the clerk.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.