Comedy Quotes - Page 5

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They’re superficial and I like articulate comedy.

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

Comedy = tragedy + time.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

He who hesitates is poor.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

I like idiotic comedies.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.