Comedy Quotes

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over again, I would have booked myself on the road for at least a year.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage.

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

Comedy is second nature for me.

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts.

kind of like a traveling comedy circus.

Often times, finding a serious idea that can be the foundation of a romantic comedy can be the difference between something that flies off like so many spinning plates or something that has some emotional weight underneath it. It also leads to the kind of actor that you can get for that role. What is often the case in a standard romantic comedy is that it's all about the-girl-and-the-boy-is-kind-of-fun vibe, but with this, you could go for an actor of real depth.