Comedy Quotes - Page 8

• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Stupid, Trying

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance.

  Khandi Alexander

  Balance, Needs, Hiatus

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• Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

  Ivan Reitman

  Girl, Elements, Firsts

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.

  Jack Lemmon

  Drama, Writing, Hard Life

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

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• There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that

  Cillian Murphy

  Depth, Stuff, Sake

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• I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage

  Todd Barry

  Monday, Mean, Sunday

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• There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

  Don Martin

  Suffering

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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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• I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

  Rodney Carrington

  Would Be, Hardest, If I Could

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

  Noah Hathaway

  Want, Action, Cry

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• I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.

  Mike Epps

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

  Pete Sampras

  Sports, Player, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Tragedy, Elements

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• You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

  Joe Klein

  News, Shows, Comedy Shows

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• I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

  Tim Conway

  Team, Years, Over You

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• Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

  Artie Lange

  Sad, Mean, Vegas

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• Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

  John Cleese

  Mean, Mean Spirited, Spirited

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• Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

  Gilda Radner

  People, Laughing, Making People Laugh

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• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Too Much, Ruined

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

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• A big girl once came up to me after a show and said "I think you're fatist." I said "No, no. I think you're fattest."

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

  Aries Spears

  Thinking, Able, Kind

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