Great Comedy Quotes

• I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

  Graham Chapman

  Mother, Father, Animal

  "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.

  Bette Midler

  Daughter, Drama, Hot

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

  Kate Bush

  Country, Thinking, English History

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

  George Ratliff

  Crazy, Drama, Independent

  "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  Nathan Rabin

  Stars, Valentine, Voice

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• I think all great comedies - or at least the comedies I like - it has some of the funniest moments, but it never breaks the spell for the audience. It never pushes the audience away by spoofing itself too much or undermining the characters or making them cardboard or flimsy. Everybody is really trying to do what their characters believe in - and so nobody breaks the spell of the world, even though in other ways it's a comedy and very funny.

  James Franco

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy.

  Ethan Hawke

  Trying, Different, Want

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 12, 2012.

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• If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no.

  Eric Bana

  Comedy, Doorstep, Hard

  "Eric Bana reflects on 'Munich' controversy". Interview, www.today.com. May 12, 2006.

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• There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

  Sarah Silverman

  Moving, Mixing, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

  Vince Vaughn

  Drama, Comedy, Extremes

  "HitFix Q&A: Vince Vaughn, Kevin James take a new tack in ‘The Dilemma’". Interview with Katie Hasty, November 23, 2010.

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• Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were.

  Leonard Maltin

  Play, Years, Today

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• Great comedy calls large matters into question.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Matter, Comedy

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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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, Comedy, Structure

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• Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

  Bill Hicks

  People, Answers, Helping

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• Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.'

  Matthew Perry

  Cheer, Past, Thinking

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• I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

  Mel Brooks

  Long, Mind, Taste

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