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.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.
Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make it heavy-handed. We wanted to do something which had a lot of hope in it. And then for...
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.
It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.
There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.
