Quotes About Comedy

Oh, this has got to be something humorus.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Mais, supposé, comme il est vrai, que les exercices de la piété souffrent des intervelles et que les hommes aient besoin de divertissement, je soutiens qu'on ne leur en peut trouver un qui soit plus innocent que la comédie.

Je voudrais bien savoir pourquoi les gens qui se scandalisent si fort de la comédie de Molière ne disent mot de celle de Scaramouche." "La raison de cela, c'est que la comédie de Scaramouche joue le ciel et la religion, dont ces messieurs-là ne se soucient point; mais celle de Molière les joue eux-mêmes; c'est ce qu'ils ne peuvent souffrir.

Dor. So you think, Lysidas, that all the wit and beauty are to be found in serious poems, and that comic pieces are trifles which deserve no praise? Ur. I certainly do not think so. Tragedy no doubt is very fine when it is well written; but comedy has also its charms, and I believe that one is no less difficult than the other.

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

You see him laboring to produce bons mots.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

The limerick packs laughs anatomical, into space that is quite economical; but the good ones I've seen, so seldom are clean, and the clean ones so seldom are comical.

First you must find... another shrubbery! Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two layer effect with a little path running down the middle. ("A path! A path!") Then, you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forrest... with... a herring!

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I found people looked better when they laughed

Comedy is a funny way of being serious. My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Logic is a 3D glasses of flat reality humor.

Man lives in illusions in the comedy matrix of his absurd vices and paradoxical instincts.

Reality is an infernal black comedy of truth, an ironic black humor of a life scenario, where justice is just sarcasm.

Too Much Truth is the style of a drunken master, a comical third eye whose power of thought will break stone and ice.

A comedian's life is truly a comedy in itself. The majority cannot take themselves seriously.

We are all comedians in this world, which is why no one is immune to laughter. However, it's not given to every actor to make people laugh.