Comedy Quotes - Page 39

• That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

  Jason Segel

  Drama, Writing, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

  Jonah Hill

  Thinking, Laughing, People

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview GET HIM TO THE GREEK – Also Talks THE ADVENTURER’S HANDBOOK, His Career, Sequels, and SO Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into not being able to be as happy a person as I think I deserve to be, so I tend to watch things like 30 Rock and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Anything Tina Fey's involved in. And Parks and Rec. I love comedies!

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Rocks, Fey

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Funny, War, Teaching

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• A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

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• Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

  Paul Goodman

  May, Surface, Malice

  Paul Goodman (1979). “Creator Spirit Come!: The Literary Essays of Paul Goodman”, Dutton Adult

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• Don't get it right, just get it written.

  James Thurber

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Written

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.562, Library of America

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• The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, Men, Heartless

  1958 In the New York Times Magazine, 7 Dec.

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  Graham Greene

  Men, Comedian, Style

  GRAHAM GREENE (1966). “THE COMEDIANS”

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• A lot of people say that comedy doesnt travel well. I found it very accessible.

  Mark Addy

  People, Found, Wells

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

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• Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

  Scott Thompson

  Light, Laughing, Looks

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• Comedy is actually very macho driven.

  Scott Thompson

  Driven, Macho

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• We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

  Jill Bennett

  Romantic Love, Needs, Done

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• The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Watches

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• I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world.

  Paul Kane

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.

  Ryan Murphy

  Queens, Writing, Ideas

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• We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

  Eric Morecambe

  Brother, Navy, Dave

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

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• Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Drug, Challenges

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• We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

  James Thurber

  Wicked, Faults, Mines

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• I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

  Jane Seymour

  Wedding, People, Wedding Crasher

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• I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Suicide, Writing

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• I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Wish, Asbestos

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• I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Cat, Personality

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• If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

  David Mitchell

  Funny, Skills, Want

  "Fictional character: Mark Corrigan". TV Series "Peep Show" ("Dance Class", 2004), 2003-2015.

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