Quotes About Comedy

Get all the good laughs you can.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.

Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.

For a stand-up comic, a minute on TV without a laugh was death. And Carson was adamant about the formula. He had recently stopped by the Improv to see Jay Leno and Andy Kaufman perform and had pronounced both of them "not ready," telling Budd Friedman, "They're funny, but they don't have six minutes." By

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.

The preponderance of canned laughter on the American boob tube presents the viewer with a conundrum of three choices without the possibility of answering incorrectly. 1. The material is not that funny. 2. The audience is really that stupid. 3. Both 1 and 2.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

I cannot sing, dance or act what else would I be but a talk show host.

What the hell's the date, Paul?

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

He has been greatly missed since his retirement ... Thank God for videotapes and DVDs. In this regard, he will always be around.