Comedy Quotes
On laughter, dark times, and comedy as survival.
This collection treats comedy as something closer to coping than entertainment, with one entry stating plainly that its real purpose is to hide pain. See Comedian quotes for related themes.
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When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.
I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.
I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that's basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.
When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.
