Gilbert Gottfried Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• I have always felt comedy and tragedy are roommates. If you look up comedy and tragedy, you will find a very old picture of two masks. One mask is tragedy. It looks like its crying. The other mask is comedy. It looks like its laughing. Nowadays, we would say, How tasteless and insensitive. A comedy mask is laughing at a tragedy mask.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Two, Laughing, Tragedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  People, Important, Comedy

  "Above all, Phyllis Diller was hysterical" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. August 21, 2012.

• Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Character, Eye, Details

  Gilbert Gottfried (2011). “Rubber Balls and Liquor”, p.23, Macmillan

• I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, Night, Squares

• Nothing can help my comedy.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Helping, Comedy

• Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Nice, Kids, Blue

  "If you don't want to hear an edgy joke, don't listen" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2012.

• I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Faces, Comedy, Used

  Interview with John DeBellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2009.

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