Comedy Quotes - Page 24

• 'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

  Tobin Bell

  Scary, Alive, Littles

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• If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

  Camille Flammarion

  Life, Existence, Humans

  Camille Flammarion (1922). “Death and its mystery: before death, proofs of the existence of the soul”

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• Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.

  Nina Conti

  Laughing, Comedian, Watches

  "The Simpsons, You've Been Framed, The Muppets: Nina Conti's favourite TV" by Gwilym Mumford, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2013.

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• If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.

  John Waters

  Fun, Real, Hippie

  "John Waters Takes It All". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.

  Taylor Negron

  Beach, Laughter, Thinking

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• I always knew that someone was going to come at me with a script to play God. It's just one of those things, the way your career is unfolding and all the talk about gravitas etc etc, so I had a strong feeling that someone was going to offer me the part of God. I was totally prepared to say, 'Thanks but no thanks,' unless it was a comedy.

  Morgan Freeman

  Strong, Play, Careers

  "Fox411 QA: Morgan Freeman on why he believes he is God and which successful film he hated making". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2012.

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• Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

  Jon Stewart

  Moving, Jam, Middle

  "Jon Stewart, Faking It and Making It". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 22, 2005.

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• I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

  Eugene Levy

  Character, Comedian, Actors

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that doing comedy and playing Dwight is a service. Not to get grandiose about it, but I have a talent for playing oddball characters and I can make people laugh and that can help bring families together and people will really enjoy it and it puts a smile on their face and I think that is a really great thing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Thinking, Laughing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

  Jimmy Fallon

  League, Tape, Racist

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• I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.

  Guillermo Diaz

  Laughter, School, Yearbook

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• Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.

  Stanley Tucci

  Drama, Play, Want Something

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

  Carol Burnett

  Humor, Doe, Actors

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• A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Acting, Serious

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.162

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• The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know? some of these jokes just write themselves.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Sarcastic, Writing

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• I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of Seinfeld, it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just take time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.

  Zachary Knighton

  Mean, People, Progress

  "Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton 'Happy Endings' interview: 'This is the anti-romantic comedy'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

  Joel McHale

  Hair, Facts, Grunge

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

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• I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

  John Krasinski

  Teacher, College, One Day

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• Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Somewhere Else

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 12, 1997.

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• For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Violence, Unexpected, Common

  "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, www.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

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• An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

  Elinor Lipman

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

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• I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

  David Letterman

  Running, Gentleman, Problem

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• Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

  Tracy Morgan

  Anything Goes, Clubs, Sacred

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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