Quotes About Comedy

Quand je lis quelque chose je suis frappée tout de suite par peut-être une certaine vérité dedans n'est ce pas ? Quelque chose de sincère, et c'est pas nécessaire que c'est tragique ou un drame ca peut être aussi une comédie mais il faut avoir quelque chose de vraie.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

it's that particular connection between melancholy and humor that Klibansky, Panofsky, and Saxl examined in Saturn and Melancholy (1964). Just as melancholy is sadness made light, so humor is comedy that has lost its physical weight (that dimension of human carnality that, however, makes Boccaccio and Rabelais great) and casts doubts on the self, the world, and the entire network of relations they form.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

The comedy that George Lucas put into Star Wars kind of was, for me, the thing that made me love the movie.

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

It was like finding a long-lost brother who farts in the same key.

it was like finding a brother who farts in key.

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at

funny. School

He was holding up a pair of underwear with the words WORLD'S LARGEST SOURCE OF NATURAL GAS on the back.

Dumb Miss Daisy and Principal Klutz

The mind can find the information so shocking or threatening that it rejects the truth of it, rendering the information nonsense. The brain then tries to make sense of the nonsense by filing it under comedy – just

It's not enough to tell the joke. You gotta sell the joke.

Well, She's (She-Hulk) quippy. I'm quippy. When we get together, we quip. And, quipwise, I think that makes me a better quipper. -Spiderman

It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.