Comedy Quotes - Page 7

• Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

  Jenna Elfman

  People, Laughing, Challenges

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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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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• I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

  Rick Moody

  Sad, Memorable, Trying

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• Comedy is second nature for me.

  Anthony Anderson

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

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• I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

  Paul Reiser

  People, Comedian, Dentist

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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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• I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

  Jenna Elfman

  Mean, Pieces, Sticks

  Interview with Lila Holland, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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

  Nikki Cox

  Drama, Honest

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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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• Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

  Russell Baker

  Laughter, Years, Records

  Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

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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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• 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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• I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, War, Humor

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• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  William Shakespeare

  Grieving, Laughing

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [19]

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• I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

  Stephen Dorff

  Drama, Firsts, Kind

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• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

  Illeana Douglas

  Fans, May, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

  Larry David

  Thinking

  "Angry Middle-Aged Man" by James Kaplan, www.newyorker.com. January 19, 2004.

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• Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

  Val Kilmer

  Years, Wells

  "Robert Downey, Jr. & Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang)". Interview with George Merchan, www.chud.com. October 27, 2005.

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• Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

  Michael Caine

  Drama, Writing, Scripts

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• See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Humor, Speak No Evil

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• The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

  Lenny Bruce

  Art, Laughter, Fake

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• My girlfriend said she wanted me to tease her, so I said "Alright, fatty."

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girlfriend, 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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• It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

  John Lithgow

  Running, Long, Tough Times

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• If I were to die of anything vaguely sex-related or had taken Viagra, you just know there'd be headlines of 'Russell How-hard' in the newspapers.

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Sex, Taken

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• You can figure out how bad a person you are by how soon after September 11th you masturbated, like how long you waited... and for me it was between the two buildings going down... I had to do it, otherwise they'd win.

  Louis C. K.

  Funny, Winning, Two

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