Quotes About Comedy

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

Joan Rivers is 80 and she's fantastic. She lives in mortal fear of not filling that 1,500-seat room.

I love it when someone's laugh is funnier than the joke.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers.

Penguins mate for life. That doesn't surprise me much because they all look alike. It's not like they're going to meet a really new, great looking penguin someday.

He's not pining, he's passed on. This parrot is no more. He has ceased to be. He's expired and gone to meet his maker. He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't have nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!

I will find humor in my everyday life by looking for people I can laugh at.

If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

But failure to understand a joke has never yet made anyone find it less amusing,

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

I went out to dinner with a Marine. He looked across the table and he goes, "I could kill you in seven seconds." I go, "I'll just have toast then."

The "play" that is the nation's capital never closes, high drama and low comedy, villains and heroes, all the stuff of compelling theatre. And in true theatrical spirit, the show must, and hopefully will, go on.