Comedy Quotes - Page 21

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

I can only develop a stand-up show by being on stage. I can't write it. Whenever I see comedy written down, it very rarely makes me laugh.

Yes, I would say my comedy is grunge, evidenced by the fact my jokes have put an end to big-hair glam comedy.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

I'm a nightclub comic. That's what I do. I work in the clubs uncensored because my mind is uncensored, and those are the thoughts that I have. I do the kind of comedy that I would enjoy seeing.

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

I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow, which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

Success is the enemy of comedy.

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.