Dick Cavett Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

  Dick Cavett

  Funny, Humor, Doe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

  Dick Cavett

  Pain, Feet, Years

• Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

  Dick Cavett

  Dames, Comedy, Students

• I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.

  Dick Cavett

  Hindenburg, Size, Comedy

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.68, Macmillan

• Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

  Dick Cavett

  Running, Drama, Tragedy

• If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

  Dick Cavett

  Running, Coffee, Mountain

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.126, Macmillan

• I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.

  Dick Cavett

  Feet, Guy, Noses

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 2, 2010.

• Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

  Dick Cavett

  Stars, People, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company

• I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

  Dick Cavett

  Exercise, Mad, World

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.210, Henry Holt and Company

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