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Quotes About Comedy

What do you call Santa's little helpers? Subordinate Clauses!
~ Rachel Cohn
It isn't possible to smile too much, odd one. Did you ever see the Joker in Batman?
~ Dean Koontz
In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with by far the greatest number of our days lived to the strains of an innocuous and modestly budgeted picture, sometimes a romance, sometimes a light comedy, sometimes a little art film of puzzling purpose and elusive meaning.
~ Dean Koontz
he found he was suffering from laugh-deficit disorder.
~ Dean Koontz
BETWEEN BIRTH AND BURIAL, WE FIND OURSELVES in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy—well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. In
~ Dean Koontz
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology.
~ Dean Koontz
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy—well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh.
~ Dean Koontz
It was a comedy of errors.
~ Debbie Macomber
Good humor has no age limit," I said, and she rolled her eyes.
~ Dennis Lehane
Talkin' like dogs fightin'," he explained. "Grrrr! Wuff!" He growled, shaking his head in illustration like a dog worrying a rat, and I saw Fergus's shoulders shake in suppressed hilarity. "Scots for sure," I said, trying not to laugh.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I thought he'd have an apoplexy on the spot," Grey said, lips twitching. "Likely wishes he had." Grey looked at Tom, Tom at Grey, and they burst into suffocated snorts of laughter at the memory of the Honorable Mr. Braythwaite's face on this occasion. "Come, come," Lord John said, getting himself under control. "This will never do. Have you—
~ Diana Gabaldon
Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.
~ Fred Willard
In television, there are so many things between you making a joke and the audience seeing it. It's like an assault course.
~ Noel Fielding
People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.
~ Scott Adsit
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.
~ Carlos Mencia
I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.
~ Doug Stanhope
Anyone can have a bad night and anyone can have a bad attempt at comedy.
~ Elizabeth May
Fukrey' was my first attempt at comedy.
~ Varun Sharma
I've always just been attracted to comedy.
~ Oscar Nunez
I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.
~ Anne Beatts
To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
~ Cristela Alonzo
My audiences get younger all the time.
~ Joan Rivers
I know how to be funny to black audiences.
~ Brandon T. Jackson
I've always had live audiences.
~ Rik Mayall