Comedy Quotes - Page 22

• There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint to me is no worse than having a beer. So, if someone has a problem with it, I'll just tell them to relax.

  James Franco

  Kids, Beer, Long

  "Pineapple Express - James Franco interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The embarrassment of a situation can, once you are over it, be the funniest time in your life. And I suppose a lot of my comedy comes from painful moments or experiences in life, and you just flip them on their head.

  Miranda Hart

  Painful Moments, Flip, Embarrassment

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• The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drama, Light, Tragedy

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• I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.

  Jim Carrey

  Crowds, Scripts, Reason

  "Yes Man - Jim Carrey interview" by Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the other shows, regardless if there's any sort of overlap in content or tone or anything, just because you came out in the same year.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Years, Glee

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• Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.

  Marie Dressler

  Fate, Ugly Duckling, Play

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• Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Laughter, Theatre, Evening

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Reality, Long, History

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• I think actual death will be a lot easier than dying on stage. Cause - you know - if you do [actual death] right, you can go looking good. Maybe with a little quip [like]: 'I loved everybody.' But dying on stage...Oh, God!

  Joan Rivers

  Reality, Thinking, Dying

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• God always comes up with a third act twist -- and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy.

  Joan Rivers

  Play, Tragedy, Twists

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• In response to criticism of its treatment of killer whales, Sea World said it will build them a larger habitat. When asked for comment, killer whales said, 'Hey, you know what's a larger habitat?' THE OCEAN.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nature, Ocean, Health

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• In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Racist, Body

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• Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

  Conan O'Brien

  Atheist, Heaven, Religion

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• I love the HRC. The initials are great.

  William J. Clinton

  Justice, Politics, Human Rights

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• In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.

  Seth Rogen

  Hands, Sick, Brain

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Would Be, Alive

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

  Mason Cooley

  Tragedy, Commonplace

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• The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.

  David Letterman

  Leadership, Gay, Class

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• Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

  David Letterman

  Leadership, Fashion, Real

  "Joan Rivers Dead: Hollywood Mourns Comedian" by Hilary Lewis, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 4, 2014.

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• The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Being Yourself, Whole, Objects

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

  Penelope Wilton

  Laughing, Trying, Cry

  "A study in emotion" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge shoes to fill, and some really big pants.

  Stephen Colbert

  Leadership, Work, Shoes

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• I love comedy. David's Lynch the only person I've worked with more than once who sees me as a specific thing - he sees me as the sexy bimbo, in ways, and he also sees me as Lucille Ball. Actually, Nick Cage and I did Lucy and Ricky in two scenes in Wild at heart that were cut because the movie was four hours long.

  Laura Dern

  Sexy, Heart, Cutting

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