Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.

To me Psycho was a big comedy. Had to be.

To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

Unlike typical romantic comedies, Definitely Maybe is not formulaic or predictable and it spans a decade while being set against a political background. Also, the audience doesn't know who ends up with who until the very end, which makes it a sort of "romantic mystery comedy".

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

Une ample Come  die a'   cent actes divers, Et dont la sce'  ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on 'Xena'. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the Greek sense, only means that it has a happy ending.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours.

We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

Well, I came down to LA initially to join The Groundlings, which is an improv comedy group. I didn't get in, of course, becaue I'm not a part of The Groundlings. I just assumed that I could walk in and take over. So they said: "Hit the road Jack." And I ended up getting an agent instead. They sent me out on a couple of leads and I ended up on a sitcom and Van Wilder thereafter and then pantsless with Sandra Bullock.

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.

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