Comedy Quotes

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  There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Fun, Laughter, Real

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Carlin on Campus". Documentary, Comedy, 1984.

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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.

  George Burns

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humor

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• 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.

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• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Life, Wise, Dream

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Makeup, Color

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• There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Hurt, Laughter

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.139, Open Road Media

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  Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

  Sid Caesar

  Laughter, Integrity, Humor

  "The words and comedy of Sid Caesar" by Lisa Respers France, February 12, 2014.

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• Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Mean, Tragedy

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• I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

  Steven Wright

  Love, Dream, Funny Inspirational

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• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

  George Burns

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

  Tim Allen

  Giving, Judging, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

  Benito Mussolini

  Eugenics, Phantoms, Socialism

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• Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

  Eugenio Montale

  Creative, Height, Divine

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• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Writing, Hysteria, Moments

  "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation". Interview with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, April 24, 1994.

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• The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

  James Thurber

  Taste, Dignity, Libel

  1961 Lanterns and Lances,'The Duchess and the Bugs'.

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• If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see on television.

  Jamie Farr

  Television, Want, Sids

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• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Teenager, Mean, Hollywood

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Song, Stories, Revolution

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• I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

  Jeff Bridges

  Tragedy, Stuff, Terrific

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• If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

  Richard Russo

  Jokes, Ifs

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• But comedy I'd love to do as much as humanly possible.

  Ben Kingsley

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Laughing

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