Quotes About Comedy

I knew after 'Sarah Marshall' that my favorite genre is romantic comedy. Nothing is more satisfying than a great romantic comedy.

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

I've been writing jokes since I'm fifteen. Not out of happiness, but to go to a different place, because reality wasn't good to me.

To create laughter, you must first learn to smile

My idea of exercise is a good brisk sit.

I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.

Bill Murray is on the show tonight. Next week I'll be Goggling 'foods that improve prostate health.'