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Quotes About Comedy

The meter said six pounds, so I passed a ten pound note through the window and watched a fifteen-second production of 'I'm Not Sure I've Got Change For That', starring licensed cab driver 99102, before getting out and heading back down the street.
~ Hugh Laurie
What do you mean, funny? Funny peculiar or funny ha-ha?
~ Unknown
Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha
~ Unknown
Ladies and gentlemen, cizzens, I give you—satire!
~ Unknown
There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about.
~ Ian Rush
It's just as well that bicycles don't suffer from inferiority complexes!' cracked Audrey.
~ Unknown
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
~ Ice Cube
Serious things cannot be understood without humorous things Nor opposites without opposites.
~ Idries Shah
Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
~ Colin Hanks
We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh... We'll do whatever it takes.
~ Colin Mochrie
Everybody's funny in different ways.
~ Colin Quinn
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
~ Colin Quinn
You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.
~ Colin Quinn
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
~ Colin Quinn
He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
~ Colin Quinn
For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor.
~ Colin Quinn
You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a business of bean counters, he still likes to laugh at small things and creates a show around it.
~ Colin Quinn
Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
~ Colleen Haskell
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human.
~ Colm Meaney
On peut rire de tout mais pas avec n'importe qui.
~ Coluche
Tant qu'on fait rire, c'est des plaisanteries. Dès que c'est pas drôle, c'est des insultes. It's a joke as long as people are laughing. If it's not funny, it's an insult.
~ Coluche
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
~ Conan O'Brien
Applaud my idiocy.
~ Conan O'Brien