Comedy Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old comedy quotes, comedy sayings, and comedy proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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A comedy isn't about being funny a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
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Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
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Great comedy calls large matters into question.
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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.
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First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.
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Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
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It seems that two of the most basic forms of comedy are jokes and stories. And, of course, they are not mutually exclusive.
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Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
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If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
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I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
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Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
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In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
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The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the jokes.
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Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
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Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
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Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head ain't funny!
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Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.
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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
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Comedy always works best when it is mean spirited.
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Comedy naturally wears itself out destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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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.
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Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard to find demographic.
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To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.
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I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.
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Make no mistake about why these babies are here they are here to replace us.
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Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
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Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
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Comedy is very controlling you are making people laugh.
