Comedy Quotes - Page 6

• I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

  Davy Jones

  Fifty, Killers, Shows

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• Every movie I do, or when I'm on the sketch comedy show, I don't really get into it until I have an outfit or something funny with my head or face or something.

  Kel Mitchell

  Faces, Shows, Comedy Shows

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

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• When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

  Matt Lucas

  Teenager, School, Angst

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• I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.

  Carlos Alazraqui

  Jobs, Real, College

  Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. July 11, 2006.

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• And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

  William Peter Blatty

  Memories, Writing, Careers

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Teenager, Drinking, Evil

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• I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Asparagus

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• I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Aggravation, Musician, Doe

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• You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

  Bud Abbott

  Teamwork, Fighting, Heard

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

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• I got everybody on my side through comedy.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Sides

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• The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

  Dawn Powell

  War, Men, Vanity

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.

  Aries Spears

  Fall, Structure, Fall Into Place

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• I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

  Val Guest

  Jobs, Writing, Pieces

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• One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• So I was getting into my car and this bloke says to me, 'Can you give me a lift?' I said, 'Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster, go for it!'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Oysters

  "Comedy preview" by Wiliam Cook, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Happiness, Fake People

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• There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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

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• To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

  Nikki Cox

  Drama, Honest

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• No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Giving

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.89, Penguin

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• Comedy is second nature for me.

  Anthony Anderson

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

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• It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

  Tony Hancock

  Two, Ingredients, Seems

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• I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

  John Cleese

  Book, Writing, Want

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• When someone close to you dies, move seats.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Moving, Humor

  "Jimmy Carr's 40 most memorable jokes: One-liners and videos galore to mark comic's 40th birthday" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. September 14, 2012.

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• All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

  Mackenzie Crook

  Character, Different Faces, Glad

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• Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Dark, Difficult, Audience

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