Best 2389 quotes in «comedy quotes» category

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

But that hair? That is comedy entrapment. People are not attacking your hair, they are defending themselves from something that appears like it's about to attack them.

Buy a condom, ribbed for her pleasure. Turn it inside out, now it's ribbed for your pleasure.

By the time I would have graduated, at 22, I was a writer and featured performer on Saturday Night Live.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.

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

Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.

Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

Comedies are something Id be very interesting in doing.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn't be comedy if it didn't.

Comedy and drama are both challenging to me.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.

Comedy is the only weapon I have to battle totalitarianism.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Comedies are often half-hour programs and then drama and action series are often an hour.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything that quick.

Comedy comes from confusion.

Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.

Comedy doesn't have to be loud and obnoxious and beat you over the head. It can be this really small detail that, when it computes in your brain, you think, "That's great. That's masterful.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint.