Comedy Quotes
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I've always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, because that's where I started. Most of my work in the beginning was really in drama. I can't say it's harder to do one or the other. The challenges are just different in comedy and drama. (Quote by - Renee Zellweger)
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them. (Quote by - Theodore H. White)
One comedy event an evening is enough for me. (Quote by - Lily Tomlin)
We've got a full schedule, We're excited because we're on the verge of releasing our fifth CD. We will have a lot of comedy on it, and songs about chickens. We love to make people laugh. (Quote by - Tim White)
They want to have a big movie star in that role. I'm sure a lot of other people were considered. He wouldn't be anybody's first thought. People forget that he has musical-comedy chops. He comes from musical theater, from Broadway. That's where he began, and so he has a sense of that style. It certainly is a great big acting leap for him. It's going to be interesting to see how he does it. (Quote by - Bruce Vilanch)
Sometimes I wonder how I got into comedy at all. I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand. (Quote by - Don Adams)
God writes a lot of comedy.. the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. (Quote by - Garrison Keillor)
It's part senior center, part comedy club, part elementary school. (Quote by - Jim Roe)
It's not the Olympics that are the problem, it's these big, horrible, formula, factory American comedies that are out there bashing our tiny, little film industry and when you're trying to celebrate the Australian culture you've got all this trash coming in there. (Quote by - Yahoo Serious)
I watch a lot of news shows and I love Nick at Night, and the Comedy Channel. (Quote by - Bea Arthur)
This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is. 'Oh My God!' that's all you can say. (Quote by - Harry Shearer)
Since the SAG Awards® honors both dramatic and comedic performances, TNT, television's first network for drama, and TBS, television's 'very funny' network, are ideal companions to present this exciting annual event,This simulcast allows us to utilize the brands of both networks to market the presentation in ways that speak to both drama fans and comedy lovers. (Quote by - Steve Koonin)
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
In those days, there was one secret to making good comedy. If it made the audience laugh, it was a good comedy. (Quote by - Hal Roach)
Time to face the facts: Dave Chappelle's hit Comedy Central series isn't coming back, says one of its stars.] Chappelle's Show is over, man. Done, It took me a long time to be able to say those words, but I can say it pretty easy now, because it's the truth. (Quote by - Charlie Murphy)
Maybe if people are getting worn out with reality shows, which they don't seem to be, comedies will start reasserting themselves. (Quote by - Candice Bergen)
Comedy is tragedy plus time. (Quote by - Carol Burnett)
I'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on Saturday Night Live and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with Lost in Translation and Rushmore. I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great. (Quote by - Will Ferrell)
The Merchant City has some great venues for comedy, We want to show a bit of everything that happens in Glasgow's comedy community. (Quote by - Alan Anderson)
A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal. (Quote by - Will Ferrell)
The Colgate Comedy Hour Make Room for Daddy. (Quote by - Danny Simon)
I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. (Quote by - Dennis Miller)
There just aren't that many roles written for young women that are character-y kind of roles, especially in comedies. (Quote by - Anna Faris)
These shows are extremely entertaining. There's comedy. There are tender moments. What I want to get across more than anything is that it's not a recital and it's not a ballet. We use jazz, ballet, lyrical hip-hop We use all kinds of dance to tell our story, which I think keeps it interesting. There's something for every age. Anyone would enjoy it. (Quote by - Debbie McCreight)
Certainly, we're disappointed. These grosses indicate a continuous downtrend in the popularity of non-comedy traditional animated movies. This is a movie that plays well. It was 85 percent families. Sixty-three percent of the adults were moms. (Quote by - Jim Tharp)
Comedy keeps the heart sweet. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I love that it's a risky and strange comedy. And it's one of those movies that hasn't been shredded by the studio system and watered down. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)
It's a musical comedy mixed with a little bit of seriousness. It's just fun for everybody. (Quote by - Stephen Eliasson)
I think the thing that has to be clear is these guys can sing. The comedy is great; the harmony, fantastic. People here, they think drag guys can't sing. (Quote by - Glenn Casale)
Here's a child that was laughing at a comedy. His way of expressing delight and joy at this movie was laughing, but because his communication technique got in the way of someone else's space, he had to leave. (Quote by - Susan Brown)
kind of like a traveling comedy circus. (Quote by - Vince Vaughn)
If you need a night of comedies, you have three pieces of the puzzle and are looking for a fourth. (Quote by - Stephen McPherson)
They were there not because of a comedy show or concert. They came because of politics, and that is what our organization tries to do raise the level of debate. I think we were very successful that day. (Quote by - Cameron French)
Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept. (Quote by - Chris Wedge)
Life is too serious to do farce comedy. (Quote by - Buster Keaton)
This is going to be the biggest comedy blowout ever, in part because you can't get bigger stars than this, and because it was so much work to put together I'm never doing it again. (Quote by - Charna Halpern)
I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several times at situation comedy and drama, just as in 1986 I decided to lay the sketches off for a bit to concentrate on situation comedy and drama. I am NOT giving up comedy. I love doing stand-up comedy and characters. (Quote by - Lenny Henry)
The world of politics is especially hard hit by this crisis of ‘truth'. It is a crisis across the board, from world affairs espicially after Iraq to our own homespun pre-election, tear-jerking comedies. In his "What is the Point of Being a Christian? Timothy Radcliffe OP writes: (Quote by - Joseph Muscat)
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. (Quote by - Jerry Seinfeld)
I'm not sure sophisticated comedy has a place on television any more. I'd like to think it still does But I'm not sure the networks are interested, I'm not sure anybody else is interested in sophisticated comedy any more. (Quote by - Kelsey Grammer)
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy. (Quote by - Susan Sarandon)
The first `Barbershop' kicked the door open and said, `Look, we're going to talk about whatever we want to talk about.' I think the responsible thing we have to do, even though it's a comedy, even though we have a lot of fun, and even though in someway we are a little more absurdist than the movies, is to recognize that just to bring up a topic for the sake of bringing it up is not enough. (Quote by - John Ridley)
If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
Michael is a great actor with a lot of range and could not only give us a lot of warmth and heroism, but could give us a lot of comedy, because he was a great improviser. (Quote by - Don Hahn)
which was wonderful, but didn't run. Moss went to London to find, according to the script, 'the most beautiful girl in the world.' He brought back Rosemary Harris, who was divine! We all liked her, but didn't think she was 'the most beautiful girl.' Then, at the run-through, we watched from the wings, as she made her entrance and, having done nothing to her face, she was 'the most beautiful girl in the world.' She's heaven! One of the greatest living actresses. (Quote by - Earle Hyman)
I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything. (Quote by - Rodney Carrington)
If anybody could have been called a comic genius it was Ronnie, Ronnie Barker was a true icon of situation comedy and character comedy and there was nobody to my mind to touch him. (Quote by - Nicholas Parsons)
The Three Musketeers turned out to be a real eye-opener for me, because I had no idea that I was good at comedy. (Quote by - Raquel Welch)
If you can sit through The Aristocrats and laugh at it, you come out the other end realizing that to be made to laugh at it robs the telling of it of the power to shock and sting. It's why Carlin is in the movie. It's basically a lesson about words, how we can give power to words and take it back. Comedy lubricates that transaction sometimes. (Quote by - Harry Shearer)
You don't want to be too worried about the marketplace or what's commercial, or what's on TV or in the movies right now. What started us was writing this very personal romantic comedy script that never got made, but was about very personal things to us and showcased our voice as writers. People responded to that and started to open doors because of that. (Quote by - Adam Horowitz)
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
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. (Quote by - James Thurber)
I am a huge fan of the show, and I'm very picky with my comedy, I don't get to do comedy very often, and when they asked me, I jumped at the opportunity. I was ready to do something for fun. (Quote by - Charlize Theron)
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. (Quote by - George Carlin)
I didn't know what I saw swamp gas, space ship, sundog, weather balloon. What impressed me was my parents' fear of reporting the sighting. I realized that even in our allegedly rational age many things remain unspeakable damned, blasphemous. George Carlin can't do his comedy on networks because the comedy depends on taboo words. We remain governed by taboo to an astounding extent. (Quote by - Robert Anton Wilson)
Nobody's ever challenged me and tapped into what I can do. I ain't played a villain which I believe I can do and do real well. There hasn't been any director who has been able to challenge me to go there. At this point in my life I've done a lot of things from stand-up to my own television show for five years to successful comedy shows, and concert films. (Quote by - Martin Lawrence)
You never know what you're going to get. Last year, we had a lot of features; this year we have a lot of comedy shorts and music videos. So far, every festival has been different in tone and what kind of films we've received. (Quote by - Tim Richardson)
Then I thought maybe this guy kind of lucked out and is really just some idiot who's going to direct it like some broad comedy or something, Then I talked to Brad on the phone and he's thinking the same with me. (Quote by - Vincent D'Onofrio)
He's the most successful American comedy playwright ever. And this is such a damned good funny play - and this time of year you need as many laughs as you can get. (Quote by - James Brewer)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
The anger that fuels comedy has built up. We fully expect Katrina to become part of the comic lexicon of the show. (Quote by - Stephen Hill)
We plan to make three feature-length movies for theatrical release this year, probably comedies because that is what works well for local production and we already have a stable of good comedy writers from our television sitcoms. (Quote by - Tim Horan)
I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight. (Quote by - Will Ferrell)
The best way to bring people together with about any subject they're uncomfortable with is through comedy. (Quote by - Jimi Mistry)
I suppose I grew up wishing I was an American Jew for the comedy and the one-liners.actress who does a Holocaust movie because, as she explains, it's a surefire way to finally win an Oscar. (Quote by - Ricky Gervais)
Some little people have music in them,but Fats was all music, and you know how big he was. (Quote by - James P. Johnson)
I feel like a part of me is gone, too. We were a comedy team and I was proud to be his straight man. He was a wonderful comedian. Underrated, really. (Quote by - Dwayne Hickman)
Lane is a Tony-winning producer and part-time playwright. Based on the evidence here, Lane should stick to producing. He has attempted to write a romantic comedy/farce/backstage play. It fails as all three… The playwright goes to remarkably tacky lengths to get laughs… and still doesn't get them… Even the intentionally rotten musical numbers from I Married a Communist aren't funny. Perhaps that's because the clueless comedy surrounding them is just as amateurish. (Quote by - William Stevenson)
A Christine Lavin show combines music, comedy, knitting, twirling, a little science and education, some audience participation, and a whole lot of fun. She often holds knitting circles in her dressing room before the show, and the audience is always invited - that's what really inspired this fundraiser. (Quote by - Scott Cullen)
Nobody is as innocent as they used to be. You can't work in a world of wish fulfillment. This is an adult family comedy. You have to have some honesty and edge to be successful. We're reflecting existing behavior, not encouraging it. (Quote by - Bruce Helford)
I've frequently said that fall is a bad time to launch reality programming. The audience has a real hunger to check out the new dramas and comedies this time of year, so we elected to not launch any new shows. (Quote by - Andrea Wong)
It's a very difficult thing to master. I don't think that many people have the light touch that comedy commands. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
We want to provide our fans the ability to get Comedy Central anytime, anywhere, while delivering an experience that's intuitive, interactive and appropriate to the space. With the launch of the Take Out application, we are enabling our mobile consumers to get their Comedy Central fix on a daily basis. (Quote by - Michele Ganeless)
God always comes up with a third act twist and we won't know until we die whether the play was a comedy or a tragedy. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)
One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good. They've been exposed to so many dire, bad half-hour shows that the expectation is that any half-hour comedy is going to be the same stale stuff we've seen. So there's a disinclination to sample them. (Quote by - Joe Keenan)
Any time you have a comedy with Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers, you'd love to see it do more. (Quote by - Tom Sherak)
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies. (Quote by - David Duchovny)
This is really a comedy of errors and missteps for the candidate, the party, the consultants, everybody. Everybody wants an opponent like these guys. (Quote by - Douglas Muzzio)
That meant I could go home at night, Doing stand-up comedy, you're on the road an awful lot. (Quote by - Bob Newhart)
I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie, I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
I have such a passion for this show, because it is not your typical musical comedy piece. There is so much depth. (Quote by - David Bryant)
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
It's an attempt to do speaking opera. What I'm doing can work against the melodrama and the music, and parody the melodrama. In the love scenes, the men are picked up by the women ? the men are swept off their feet ? so I can get a lot of comedy from it. It's a comedy of opposition. (Quote by - Lee Breuer)
By expressing his heart, anger and joy, Richard Pryor took comedy to its highest form. (Quote by - Steve Martin)
Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an inside joke among comics, when he got 'Full House,' it was, like, wow, he's playing this all-American dad kind of thing. That was not Bob Saget. His comedic style is definitely more twisted, and he has an edgier side than he showed in 'Full House'. (Quote by - Bob Saget)
This is such a surprise,Special thanks to my boss, Jana, [who has] created an atmosphere at the BBC that embraces risk. (Quote by - Stuart Murphy)
When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier. (Quote by - Carol Burnett)
Everyone is going to love it. It's not just a kid movie. It has romance between Helen and Frank, comedy from the younger kids, a love triangle between the teenagers. It's very broad. (Quote by - Drake Bell)
Life is funny. Life isn't categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don't know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy orI want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know. (Quote by - Jennifer Aniston)
He redefined comedy by defining the moment of our ascendancy as a generation. As did Charlie Chaplin , as did the Marx Brothers, as did Laurel and Hardy define their own times, Steve Martin defined ours. (Quote by - Tom Hanks)
We're thrilled FOX entrusted us with one of its most prized comedies and offered us the creative freedom to make an offbeat yet true-to-the-brand mobile game that reflects the spirit of the FAMILY GUY and its hardcore fans. Air Griffin is just another great example of our successful partnership with FOX. (Quote by - Andy Nulman)
I like bringing comedy to musicals. That's what's so much fun about this show, because the writers are so based in comedy. I've been able to make it dance and sing ? and keep building things ? in a way they're not used to. For me to be able to get people to laugh in dance is huge because it doesn't always happen. (Quote by - Casey Nicholaw)
He was the beginning of a new dawn of comedy. It wasn't cute and sweet. It was a little scary. (Quote by - Whoopi Goldberg)
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
For comedy to be good, it has to be played straight. And again, the greatest example of this is Lucy Ball. No matter how wild the shows were that we did, no matter how bizarre the situations were, they were never played as if they were funny. They were played like serious incidents of ordinary everyday life. And that's why they are terribly funny and are still considered classic comedies. (Quote by - Gale Gordon)
The anniversary storyline is quintessential 'Blondie,' It follows the trials and tribulations that Blondie and Dagwood face as they plan their anniversary party, the biggest party ever to take place on the funny pages. Their domestic comedy is only accentuated by the addition of so many amazing characters on the guest list. (Quote by - Dean Young)
Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy. (Quote by - Tim Roth)
Jon's his own guy, but it's a gig that says a lot about who you are in the comedy community. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)
There's always been physical suffering in comedy. (Quote by - Don Martin)
Monster-in-Law is billed as a romantic comedy, but it's actually a mystery: Why did Jane Fonda, one of the finest actors of her generation, choose this undernourished script as her comeback project after 15 years away from the screen?. But unless Fonda buys all the copies and burns them, this is a sad curtain call and places a question mark, instead of an exclamation point, on a successful career. (Quote by - Steve Persall)
Your anger can be 49 % and your comedy 51 %, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 %, the comedy is gone. (Quote by - Joan Rivers)
To me that was interesting. A lot of romantic comedies, it's so obvious she shouldn't be with X and she should be with Y. This is more complicated than that. (Quote by - Piper Perabo)
To call them emotional comedies sounds cloying. Like Billy Wilder said, 'You want to make them laugh and you want to make them cry,' and it's very hard to do so. If you ground it in reality, you get a more honest comedy. You don't have to reach for jokes to manufacture situations as much. And I think it's a type of film I do best. (Quote by - Charles Shyer)
The volume of comedy stuff is exploding. It's a very social genre for sharing a laugh. (Quote by - Gregg Spiridellis)
Like all Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado deals with love and marriage. But it's also about misunderstanding, misinterpretation and disguise. The entire play is about the ways we mask our identity and hide our true feelings, literally and figuratively. (Quote by - Henry I. Schvey)
A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit, I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world. (Quote by - Jerry Lewis)
We discovered that the series really wants to be a comedy more than a drama. (Quote by - David E. Kelley)
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
You get to see it all in show choir ? Broadway, pop, cowboy tap dancing and comedy. (Quote by - Adam Miller)
That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing and, I think, would have liked to have been a dancer herself. So she pushed me a lot when I was very young, but I loved it. All I really wanted to be was a dancer. There's a discipline in dance that you don't get anywhere else. (Quote by - Donna Mills)
I want to thank Comedy Central for picking up the show, but more importantly I want to congratulate Comedy Central for picking up the show. (Quote by - Stephen Colbert)
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
My first year in Hollywood was a virtual comedy of errors. I was told I was too tall, and too beautiful. I found myself being cast to play dead bodies and scantily clad bimbos. (Quote by - Amber Smith)
I'm delighted that we have been able to assemble such a stellar cast of British comedy acting talent. (Quote by - Graham Smith)
I realize I'm going against the grain, doing a fully produced CD of comedy sketches and music at a time when the only comedy recordings are basically standup. But it's the kind of comedy records I grew up on and always been kind of my favorite. (Quote by - Harry Shearer)
When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy. (Quote by - Matt Lucas)
Our approach to finding where the line is in terms of comedy has been to just leap across and then go, 'Oh, there it was'. (Quote by - Dominic Knight)
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Is a comedy, not a Lifetime movie. (Quote by - Scott Seomin)
Steve got his first job in comedy as a writer on the 'Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' because he was dating one of the dancers. Oh, by the way, Steve, Tommy Tune says hi. (Quote by - Martin Short)
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. (Quote by - Robert de Niro)
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I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes. (Quote by - David Steinberg)
The hard thing is stopping him every day from hitting somebody in the head, I think he was quite happy to hit me in the groin. (Quote by - Paul Reiser)
Carlos brings a different brand of comedy than most people. He is not afraid to tackle issues. Although some people find his material controversial, he challenges all subjects equally. (Quote by - Susan Watson)
It's more of a parody. We didn't start that way, but the way we write and think, it turns into a comedy. (Quote by - Edward Seymour)
I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core, it's what I do. But I want to be a pro golfer. It's a love/hate relationship with golf. I can come away feeling so serene, and yet, it's the thing that I can let get to me to throw a club and say curses that don't even exist. I'm obsessed with something that won't let me master it. I don't knowI need therapy. (Quote by - Ray Romano)
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness. (Quote by - Harry Levin)
I think we've certainly seen a return to some more comedic spots. For a few years after 9/11, that seemed kind of toned down, but there certainly seems to be a lot of comedy in the spots tonight. (Quote by - Bob Thompson)
It was a pretty decent year for comedies. (Quote by - Brandon Gray)
We have lost a giant of comedy. Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of greats who shaped British comedy in the twentieth century. (Quote by - Mark Thompson)
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Hilary and Bob and I have played on our own with friends, and we always end up having a bonding experience and learning something about the people who play. We were talking about it at dinner one night and thought it would make for so much of the comedy and conflict that Hollywood writers are dying to capture. (Quote by - Chad Lowe)
We get a wide sea of talent from water skiers to ice fishermen to costume designers and pool cleaners. It's usually a combination of competition and comedy. (Quote by - Amy Hornyak)
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. (Quote by - Will Durst)
It was a comedy of errors, She's definitely a good player but I don't think she came out there and beat me. I just kept making error after error. (Quote by - Venus Williams)
I'm finishing a book about the making of the movie and I have a comedy I'm dying to do that would be perfect for Jim Carey, And I'm getting a cut of the film ready for The Lifetime Channel, for showing next March. (Quote by - Angela Shelton)
I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
It's less lonely. Sketch comedy is much more fun than stand-up. You can still have a good time when you're bombing in sketch comedy because at least you're bombing with other people. (Quote by - Dave Foley)
It's sad that Wally isn't here to see the first production of the musical he so loved. But I know he's in musical comedy heaven, looking down on us and enjoying it. He always felt this day would come, and he was right. (Quote by - Sherman Yellen)
They are two very different people. It's almost a modern-day 'Odd Couple,' if I had to characterize it, with the two of them portraying pretty close to who they are, which is why it's a hybrid of a reality and a comedy show. (Quote by - Dawn Ostroff)
Chappelle's Show is over, man. Done, It took me a long time to be able to say those words, but I can say it pretty easy now, because it's the truth. (Quote by - Charlie Murphy)
I'd be thinking, short term, people want comedy, but who's to say where the public's mindset will be a few years from now. In the Cold War people couldn't get enough science fiction. (Quote by - James Rocchi)
The film, as crazy as it is, is a love letter to comedians and comedy and all the different ways they improv around something. (Quote by - Bob Saget)
rock 'n' roll of comedy. (Quote by - Andrew Dice Clay)
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. (Quote by - Steve Martin)
It's exciting that the network feels we're strong enough and the show is quality enough to be put in a slot that has housed a lot of great comedy. [But] as far as affecting our work, I wake up every morning and go to bed every night absolutely terrified that I won't do a good episode of TV, and I'm going to feel that way whether we're on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Sundays at 10 am. It doesn't matter. (Quote by - Greg Garcia)
Music has always helped my films. In 'The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion,' you can hear 'Sunrise' by Glenn Miller, an idol of my childhood, in the surprise ending. I like mixing comedy with suspense and action. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
We run the gamut from drama to sports to comedy to reality-type programming. (Quote by - Al Johnson)
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. (Quote by - Adam Sandler)
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been , what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal , needs to be protected from people. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Steve Martin exploded through 'Saturday Night Live,'What you have now is Comedy Central, a ready vehicle that's helping the country-hick humor on one hand and giving a guy like Dane Cook a platform on the other. (Quote by - Geoff Mayfield)
All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us. (Quote by - Yahoo Serious)
Men and women do have different perspectives on comedy and I think we have different approaches to writing,[But] it doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, if you are funny, you're funny. Gender doesn't come into it. (Quote by - Solon)
The real 'Hamlet' is of course later, first performed in 1600, then performed with revisions in 1601, and eventually included in the First Folio after Shakespeare's death,It really has more in common with the two major works it comes between, the two great comedies 'As You Like It' and 'Twelfth Night'. (Quote by - Harold Bloom)
Obviously the player can enjoy pure action by beating up the bad guys but at the same time, comedy scenes are included as well where you can laugh while playing. This is a game where you have to beat the bad guys only with your bare hands, there are no swords or guns. The main character, Jean, is not a conventional hero who fights to 'save the world', but fights the bad guys because he doesn't like them. (Quote by - Atsushi Inaba)
They basically had a comedy of errors going. (Quote by - Capt. Chuck Bastak)
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. (Quote by - Parker Posey)
I really like the idea that Mark appeals to so many people because he just is who he is. He's not posturing or trying to look pretty or have great hair. He's just a real man and he's funny. There's a lot of actors nowadays, American actors that don't think funny is cool, so it's nice to see someone of his caliber doing comedy. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
Applaud friends, the comedy is over. (Quote by - Ludwig van Beethoven)
How television and the culture are absorbing Katrina is certainly different than how they absorbed Sept. 11. Four years ago, all culture was put on pause. But people have continued to watch comedies and dramas and reality shows throughout, even when things were at their grimmest. (Quote by - Robert Thompson)
Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won. (Quote by - Cheech Marin)
We've always had very good comedians. Very good, clean comedy. (Quote by - Ivan Landry)
It's a romantic comedy, and it's really, really fun. The play actually just uses just a little bit of the material from the movie and kind of makes its own thing. (Quote by - Alex Ellis)
We have opera, we have comedy, and we haveeverything…. It's very loving and warm. (Quote by - David Turner)
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. (Quote by - James Thurber)
It's the end of an era for a kind of comedy, a convention of comedy that seems to have moved on to an alternative form of comedy, and I would be much more of his generation. (Quote by - Frank Kelly)
I flunked out of five colleges, and I did not know what I was going to do. And when I was sitting in the back of a comedy club, and I saw a guy who I thought sucked, I said to myself 'I can do this.' And I talked to the owner of the comedy club, and I found out you get a few free drinks. (Quote by - Jimmy Dunn)
He had a wonderful sense of comedy, great timing, and he had sweet personality on the screen. I loved working with him. I was proud to be his straight man. (Quote by - Dwayne Hickman)
We haven't done a comedy show in Rose since Dane Cook last year in the spring. (Quote by - Heather Hillman)
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star. (Quote by - Arlene Dahl)
So much of good comedy is timing and being able to hear the music of a line and the rhythm of a joke. I think that's why a lot of the best comedians have some sort of musical instincts. That's one reason why Kelsey and I work so well together. He's also a musician. (Quote by - David Hyde Pierce)
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor. (Quote by - Brittany Daniel)
American men don't want to do comedy that makes them look silly or less masculine,But he has no fear. He throws himself into things. In fact, he threw himself out of a second-story window one day. He had the stunt me put down mats so everyone would laugh hysterically. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world. (Quote by - Goldie Hawn)
Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing. (Quote by - David Naughton)
What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha. (Quote by - Ian Hay)
Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy. (Quote by - Monty Python)
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball. (Quote by - George Carlin)
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. (Quote by - Stephen Sondheim)
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. (Quote by - Sholom Aleichem)
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Ronnie Barker will be numbered amongst a select band of comedy greats who shaped British comedy in the 20th century. (Quote by - Mark Thompson)
I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about. (Quote by - Matt Lucas)
What we hope is to break Judith as a major artist. Secondly, I'm going to put my television stuff, both from 'Saturday Night Live' and HBO, on DVD for the first time, and package it with a CD of comedy material mainly from my radio show about the era of anchors who are leaving or have left: Brokaw, Rather, Koppel. And then to go down the line, Judith has a lot more material. (Quote by - Harry Shearer)
It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim. (Quote by - Stephen Root)
My comedy is like a golem, it obtains it's power from the truth. (Quote by - Jairo Fernández)
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. (Quote by - Steve Martin)
At first glance, the prices for this home-grown content are...well, optimistic, to put it graciously. Unrealistic or inflated, to be harsh about it. A short description and a 30-second clip are the only audition clues you have to decide whether to plunk down 10 bucks for 'Segment '76,' an 84-minute comedy set in Poland. (Quote by - Brad Hill)
I loved the structure of the whole movie—these two parallel stories which were illustrating the point of the fine line between comedy and tragedy. It was so imaginative and unique but at the same time very signature Woody Allen. (Quote by - Will Ferrell)
I'd been trying to do something with MTV for a while, so we came up with this crazy idea, and now I've created this monster. Basically, we've been using some of that rap-battling phenomena, but [replacing the rap with comedy]. (Quote by - Wilmer Valderrama)
Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy. (Quote by - Ben Elton)
So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian. (Quote by - Chris Tucker)
I watch news programs and I love Comedy Central. I love The Daily Show-it's smarter than anything else. I also like The Critic and Celebrity Death Match and South Park. I love all of that. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
When little, tiny Comedy Central is on the cover of Newsweek magazine who's battling Time magazine for the rights to do the cover that's pretty significant, That says, 'bigger than just hit cable television show.' That says, 'cultural phenomenon'. (Quote by - Doug Herzog)
The show is a roller-coaster of emotions there's comedy, anticipation, tears of joy and no one can take an audience on that ride better than Regis. (Quote by - Andrea Wong)
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing. (Quote by - William Collins)
They are looking to us to create a legitimate comedy scene at Warner Bros. What they are hoping from us is to develop broad comedies which are PG-13 or R, and they want to make our Broken Lizard movies. It's a classic 'make one for us, make one for them' kind of thing. (Quote by - Jay Chandrasekhar)
I thought this would be a cute little film about meeting people with your same name, I would shoot it during the summer and then start on my comedy. (Quote by - Angela Shelton)
I didn't see it coming, But Comedy Central wanted to do it and will air all 13 shows that we did. That's why I'm going out on this tour. If the show wasn't picked up, I would probably be flying off to a sporting event or something in October. I wanted to take a couple of years off, but that will have to wait because of the show and the tour. (Quote by - Drew Carey)
This one is going to be watched more than any of the others he's done and he has a great opportunity. At the same time, he can't do the usual Republican standard of limited government and less spending because then it would be a comedy show because he is doing the opposite. (Quote by - Tammy Bruce)
A lot of the home video companies are not familiar with the classics. They're not aggressive with marketing them, and trying to figure out which ones they should put out. They don't necessarily have the background. I don't want to see the fourth or fifth reissue of an '80s comedy in a new box. (Quote by - George Feltenstein)
This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades. (Quote by - Richard Eder)
It's been a struggle to find that next evolution of comedy. Earl was our highest-testing show in 15 years, which was kind of a surprise. But we definitely need cutting-edge comedies like that. (Quote by - Kevin Reilly)
In my culture not a lot of people are doing this. (Quote by - Rasika Mathur)
I've been in horror movies, I've been in silly comedies. Actually did a musical once. (Quote by - David Warner)
Gilligan's Island,remarkable actor, because he was not really a comedian he was an actor who could do comedy. (Quote by - Bob Denver)
We're looking forward to working with Kids' WB! and Rainbow S.r.l. on this funny, irreverent comedy. MONSTER ALLERGY will be a great addition to our programming lineup. (Quote by - Terry Kalagian)
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Wanda is a tremendous talent. Image has firmly established itself as a leading producer and distributor of comedy content, and we are thrilled to be able to add Wanda Sykes to our comedy family. (Quote by - Barry Gordon)
A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films. Or, if you start out as a comedian, it's easy for you to be approached about nothing but comedies, and comedies with all black casts. (Quote by - Tyrese Gibson)
Richard Pryor was the Rosa Parks of comedy. He took risks and chances that made it possible for a whole generation of comics to exist. No one ever rocked the mike like Richard Pryor. (Quote by - Chris Rock)
I visualized the reactions of children listening. Stunned silence here! So hold the pause for two, three, four. This line is a laugh, more than a giggle, so pause, two, three or their chuckles will drown the next line. I'm lucky to have forty years experience of stage comedy to back me up. (Quote by - Jim Dale)
I thought I would be a serious actor. But I soon realized that doing comedy gave me what I needed out of acting. I got hooked on both the sound of laughter and that kind of flirtatious rapport with the audience. Drama just doesn't have that type of punch for me. (Quote by - Shenoah Allen)
This year we're using two terrific venues we haven't used in the past; the Hartford Stage Company and The Bushnell. We'll be doing stand-up comedy in the Bushnell Theater, which is a first for First Night in 17 years. (Quote by - Arnold Berman)
It seemed to be able to mine the craziness of everyday living in this busy world. I loved the way it flip-flopped from almost farce-like comedy to something very sweet and serious. It made me laugh. (Quote by - Aidan Quinn)
We know we aren't like Comedy Central or ESPN that serves to entertain. You may never use any part of C-SPAN, but we as a network with all our resources, like to think we are here if you ever do need to use us. (Quote by - Scott Peterson)
It is a fast-paced, adorable little comedy. Two young men have the leads in the play. One is a Jewish guy and the other is Italian. There are parts in the play for a handful of other older men and women, but I do not want to give too much about the play away just yet. (Quote by - Donna Adamonis)
Still, it's going to be an extremely diverse fall, It's hard to characterize because of the breadth of what's out there: big new musicals, one major revival, a classic comedy coming back to Broadway and a couple of major pieces of American drama, Seascape and A Touch of the Poet. (Quote by - Howard Sherman)
It's really a comedy about all these people who are looking for the loves of their lives, and struggling to find happiness during this pursuit. (Quote by - Steve Carell)
This is nice counter-programming for T3, but with comedy sequels, you never know what you're going to get. If 'Legally Blonde' doesn't come up big, they're hurting for this year. (Quote by - David Mumpower)
Often times, finding a serious idea that can be the foundation of a romantic comedy can be the difference between something that flies off like so many spinning plates or something that has some emotional weight underneath it. It also leads to the kind of actor that you can get for that role. What is often the case in a standard romantic comedy is that it's all about the-girl-and-the-boy-is-kind-of-fun vibe, but with this, you could go for an actor of real depth. (Quote by - Walter Parkes)
And we felt like it was just a great romantic comedy world and a great office comedy. (Quote by - Aaron Harberts)
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. (Quote by - Tina Fey)
I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy. (Quote by - Amanda Bynes)
There's a lot of comedy in this as well. (Quote by - Bruce Sevy)
It's a comedy, there's not a great message behind it. (Quote by - Isla Fisher)
After I realized that I wasn't going to get any acting work, I thought I would try nightclubs. And I got hired immediately at a very fancy supper club. But three nights later I was let go. The manager told me that I was so tall, so imposing, so obviously in charge that nobody was going to believe me so he said I should try comedy and I've been hooked ever since. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
I was going to radio school. I took a comedy workshop to be funny on the radio. It was stand up comedy, and I just got hooked on it. I just did open mikes, and I was off and running. (Quote by - Tony Moschetto)
In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and I know comedy. I would never, ever, ever take somebody else's joke. (Quote by - Carlos Mencia)
Over the years The Stand have been great about giving me stage time if I need to run new material. The audience is always a great mix of attentive and loud and lively: you get that good listening quality that any good comedy club should have. (Quote by - Dylan Moran)
I don't like Shakespeare. If they put 'Barefoot in the Park' or something like that if it was a good comedy, I would go. (Quote by - Tom Ryan)
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy. (Quote by - Elayne Boosler)
When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experience in the theater and I was enchanted with it. It transported me to another world-you might say that I was stage-struck. I was mesmerized by the stage. (Quote by - Al Hirschfeld)
I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first. (Quote by - David Walliams)
Art happens no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce. (Quote by - James Whistler)
I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic. (Quote by - Daniel Handler)
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. (Quote by - Gilbert Seldes)
It's been one in a series of what one might describe as a comedy of errors, except the results are not really a comedy. (Quote by - Michael Geer)
We're going where we think the comedy is. I don't think the comedy is making fun of how anybody lives. We're being upfront about it. (Quote by - Tony DiSanto)
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. (Quote by - Gilda Radner)
He was one of the few in television who could always be counted on to deliver comedy that was smart and funny. (Quote by - Howard Rosenberg)
Ranting about politics is her hobby. It's what gets her going in the morning. It's like coffee to Julie. We let her go it's actually good comedy in the morning. (Quote by - Brandi Chastain)
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. (Quote by - Wendy Wasserstein)
It never stops. He brings everybody up. When guys are down, he is the first one to put a smile on your face. When you are around him, you always have to keep an eye on him to see what he will do next. He is just so funny. He's a comedian. If basketball doesn't work out, he might have something in comedy. (Quote by - Danilo Pinnock)
I was reluctant to take the TV role, How does a TV series follow a classic Broadway comedy?. (Quote by - Jack Klugman)
She incorporates comedy and funny songs - it's not the kind of thing you'd typically see at a folk concert, but it's really unique and fun. (Quote by - Scott Cullen)
I think it's easier for African American and white comics to be praised than it is Latinos because they think our culture or our humor is substandard,I mean, I just don't think they want to give us credit. I just don't think that they see us as important enough to be at their level. . . . I'm the longest-produced (comedy)
I'm like, 'No, it's not funny, but it has moments of comedy in it'. (Quote by - Ryan Murphy)
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
You see, my dad grew up on Hollywood two-reelers and screwball comedies, His humor was very surreal and fanciful at times. I grew up on a steady diet of TV sitcoms, so my humor is more-to-earth. (Quote by - Dean Young)
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. (Quote by - V. S. Naipaul)
We wanted to do something that will capture their attention with humor. With the comedy presentation and fashion show, we hope to make things more life-applicable. (Quote by - Valerie Osborn)
Comedy Central viewers are by nature early adopters and avid users of advanced communications technologies and they expect to access our content when they want it, where they want it and how they want it, Windows XP Media Center Edition will optimize our soon-to-launch broadband channel by providing our users a variety of gateways to access Comedy Central content whether it's short and long form video, audio or text. (Quote by - Doug Herzog)
As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes. (Quote by - Matthew Lewis)
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. (Quote by - Jack Lemon)
If it's approached as just a fun read, it's like romantic comedy with a marriage plot. If it's read more profoundly, there's delicious irony and incredible insight into human foibles. I hope this is a chance for all kinds of people to discover this real gem. (Quote by - William Phillips)
All we really want to do is tell a good story about a good man and his family and the struggle to get through life. It's a family drama with some dark comedy in it about this wonderful family that's just struggling like any other American family. (Quote by - Jack Kenny)
A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
It's one of the funniest new plays I've read in a long time. It's a farce, a physical slapstick comedy. (Quote by - Robert Hupp)
What drew me to Office Space was just doing something totally different. Almost theatre-like, completely over the top, a real departure from News Radio. I think I am conservative, not eccentric. I don't have any inhibitions about making a fool of myself, but you have to, to be in comedy. (Quote by - Stephen Root)
The really interesting people we meet in our lives are mixed with comedy and tragedy. What they've created with Sheila, the audience and I have no idea what's going to happen, what she's going to do, or what she's going to say. (Quote by - Callie Thorne)
Blue Collar Comedy is our only program with growing ratings and it taps into an underserved market. Rather than keep hammering away at the small teen girl market, we decided to re-orient the network around this audience of people I fly over on the way to meetings. (Quote by - David Janollari)
Rachel was one of the early names that came up. As soon as we started thinking about her, we really got excited. She has a quality that is missing in a lot of American girls now. You know, just a sense of wholesomeness. And I had seen her movies and I thought they showed such range. At one moment, she's doing 'Mean Girls,' which is sort of high-level comedy, in a way, and then she's doing this really beautiful love story. (Quote by - Wes Craven)
Every week we had a different story and setting. Some were costume and period; some were modern. Some were comedy; some were tragedy. Some were melodrama. They were all different. (Quote by - Douglas Fairbanks)
I really enjoy his comedy. He reminds me a great deal of good British comedy actors. (Quote by - Carol Varney)
They're all regulars at the world famous Comedy Store in Los Angeles, They've been on 'The Tonight Show,' they've been on 'Premium Blend' on Comedy Central, they've been in movies and television shows, and they're all really great stand-ups. (Quote by - Vince Vaughn)
I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s Huge fan. I love all that stuff. (Quote by - Thomas Jane)
He would be surprised to know he was still popular today, He told me, when he was quitting the Marx Brothers, their kind of comedy was old-fashioned. (Quote by - Arthur Marx)
It was a comedy of mistakes to start the third quarter. We didn't play very well and a team like Mandan takes advantage of everything. (Quote by - Bruce Anderson)
The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. (Quote by - Tim Allen)
Let's do tragedies. Tragedies are more fun than comedies. (Quote by - Bret Palmer)
This cowardly, back-tracking, fast-talking, slick character, to me, is probably the most imitated character and persona that's in comedy. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)
As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that's where his strength lies. . (Quote by - Benjamin Bratt)
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. (Quote by - J. B. Priestley)
I thought the university came through very well,I think the comedy is a joke on Tommy and not a joke on the university. (Quote by - Harvey Perlman)
It was a huge hit there, and all of a sudden it was an international hit. I redesigned it at that point. It became more of a play than a comedy sketch. (Quote by - Rick Miller)
It's tough, it's an interesting little play part comedy, part serious. Basically, it's a story about the trusting friendship between women, but you lose a lot of that in the film. It's more clear throughout the play. (Quote by - Gene Anthony)
You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?. (Quote by - Bud Abbott)
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
The first part of the story is very funny and very full of gags then the second part is not a comedy is exactly a real tragedy. This, to me, was wonderful, the balance. (Quote by - Roberto Benigni)
They both have large casts, they're full-production kind of casts. Kiss Me, Kate is a wonderful musical and works well with The Taming of the Shrew, which is a good comedy that talks about the relationships between males and females. (Quote by - Brian Mather)
Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
A married philosopher belongs to comedy. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The standup is quintessentially an American art form and is a form of political protest. There's a history of the underdog using standup comedy to speak truth to power. People take notice and are transformed by the experience. (Quote by - Azhar Usman)
Our goal is to produce a monthly vaudeville-style show with an eclectic mix of live music, juggling, dance and sketch comedy. (Quote by - Scott Parker)
I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed. (Quote by - Carl Reiner)
I learned a few things on my own since, and modified some of the things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing I learned from Danny Simon. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
It's basically a violent love triangle. It's a fusion of action, comedy, drama and suspense. (Quote by - Zachary Yoshioka)
I think all comedy has victims, really, Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there. (Quote by - Tom Green)
I love making people laugh. I'm not scared to do much of anything. It's definitely physical comedy with me. I think it's funny. I love it. I'm not afraid to laugh at myself, and I think that's a great thing I have. (Quote by - Jake Slaughter)
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside. (Quote by - Chris Tucker)
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. (Quote by - Aaron Allston)
The audience comes away with experiencing everything from comedy to tears as these scenes deliver the story of two very different people who learn they also have a lot in common. (Quote by - Harold Gould)
He's a master of the new school of musicals, moving from traditional musical comedy to a more realistic musical. It has hysterical moments as well as wonderful, heartbreaking moments. There's not necessarily a bad guy — these are just two people who fell in love too quickly and moved too fast, only to find their lives have taken different turns. (Quote by - Stephen Gee)
You tell somebody you're an improviser and they think you're doing Random Acts of Comedy and it's just like, a bastardization of what I think is the purest form of art. People still don't get it, they still don't understand thatwell, number one, it's hard to prove to people that you're improvising when you're on TV. They don't believe it. (Quote by - Amy Poehler)
People are born with comedy timing, it's very hard to learn and he was just naturally gifted in that regard. (Quote by - Barbara Feldon)
We'll touch on the tools of the actor and how those feed in, but it will very much be a comedy type of thing. And we will - as much as we can in one weeks time - build them into their own little comedy troupe. (Quote by - John Schmedes)
There is a double standard out there. Comedy is a male business; it's not ladylike what we're doing. But at the end of the day, if it's funny, it's funny, and funny tends to quiet the criticisms. (Quote by - Wanda Sykes)
My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do. (Quote by - Anne Dudley)
Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder. (Quote by - Ben Kingsley)
We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hearing the laugh track because that was our bread and butter for a long time, just making an audience laugh There's no better feeling than having a crowd there and hearing a laugh. (Quote by - Carter Bays)
Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly it's the least offensive word in our language. (Quote by - Albert Brooks)
You're looking for characters to tell particular stories, and then on top of that, you're looking for a populace that you can achieve an interaction with. We discovered that the series really wants to be a comedy more than a drama. So we are looking for characters and actors with strong comedic skills as well as dramatic skills. (Quote by - David E. Kelley)
EvolutionJust the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door. (Quote by - Ivan Reitman)
Between us and the writers, it was comedy hour the whole time. We could hardly get through it. (Quote by - Buddy Rice)
This was one of Shakespeare's favorite comedies. It's a rowdy farce known for its rich language. (Quote by - Bob Yowell)
I was probably about 12 and The Young Ones wasn't meant for 12-year-olds, but there's always that element in kids where they want to watch the naughty comedy that's not for them. (Quote by - David Walliams)
One book that I read called (Quote by - David DeAngelo)
He is who he is. He's not posturing or trying to look pretty or have great hair. He's just a real man and he's funny. There are a lot of actors who don't think funny is cool. So it's nice to see someone of his caliber doing comedy. (Quote by - Reese Witherspoon)
Sometimes a politically incorrect satirical cartoon can do some good. It's only a reference to a passage in [Dante's] Divine Comedy. In any case, Mohammed was sent to Hell by Dante, one of the greatest Italian poets. (Quote by - Cesare Cavalleri)
I'm actually gonna do an album soon, yeah,It's gonna be comedy, the lyrics are all gonna be really wacky and comedic, but we're gonna get real hip-hop producers and try to make it sound like a real hip-hop CD. (Quote by - Andy Milonakis)
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
It's comedy with a universal appeal with a Latin flavor. (Quote by - Rick Najera)
Generally comedies and family movies have a harder time on sequels than action or science fiction films, That would explain the problems of 'Analyze That' or 'Stuart Little 2.' This year, 'Legally Blonde 2' could be in trouble. It doesn't have the hard core fan base of 'The Matrix' or 'X-Men.' And it opens opposite 'Terminator 3'. (Quote by - Brandon Gray)
I enjoyed both equally, but in different ways, Maynard gave me the chance to do wonderful word comedyWhen I was offered Gilligan, I chose it because that character gave me the chance to do physical comedy, which I love. (Quote by - Bob Denver)
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead. (Quote by - Will Ferrell)
Usually, funny people aren't in charge of comedy. Comedy has become commerce. They're just trying to duplicate a thing that they can sell. That's the business. I'm not mad at that. You know, cookie companies do the same thing. But all the cookies aren't good cookies. Mrs. Fields is better than a lot of them. (Quote by - Ali LeRoi)
There aren't many romantic comedies anymore that star just a female lead without being paired with a male lead. (Quote by - Goldie Hawn)
When you're making a comedy about really serious issues, you're kind of in the position of being an idiot savant. You're using the vocabulary of broad comedy to talk about what's most important. And I don't have a Michael Moore-like urge to offend people or get people angry at me. If anything, that idea stresses me out. (Quote by - Paul Weitz)
Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? I gotta get my life some writers. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
I was at Comedy Central when we launched the first season of South Park and I am thrilled to see them continue through 2008, Matt and Trey are creative geniuses and a huge part of the Comedy Central family and we look forward to continued success. (Quote by - Doug Herzog)
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. (Quote by - Sid Caesar)
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy. (Quote by - Walter Kerr)
I never thought of myself in comedy at all.. I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance. (Quote by - Imogene Coca)
You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts. (Quote by - Vince Vaughn)
There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
If you can walk away from a comedy thinking it was funny yet also feeling good about the people you watched and the journey they went on, then all the better. (Quote by - Greg Garcia)
It wasn't the kind of comedy I was a big fan of. I used to do a monologue on the Division of Motor Vehicles, and it was like six or seven minutes long. They had to follow me from beginning to end. I did a routine about buying a blender at a drugstore. It was about seven or eight minutes long. (Quote by - Richard Lewis)
The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom,'Drama, comedy and tragedy all have their roots in the compelling theatre of life that is closest to us all our relationships with those tied to us by blood. (Quote by - Richard Monette)
At Warner Bros. and I don't feel special. They come over and say hello. But everybody's gonna make a lot of money and I don't feel like I'm special to them. (Quote by - George Lopez)
Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without success. Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. They won't let you. (Quote by - Val Kilmer)
If you listen to his comedy it's serious stuff. There's war, there's racism, there's fights, there's violence, there's arguments. And then you find the joke in it. (Quote by - Ali LeRoi)
This year we had three strong new comedies and we wanted to give each of them the best time period for their premieres. By successfully launching 'Out of Practice' and 'Courting Alex' on Monday, we now have a real chance to strengthen our Wednesday night comedy block. (Quote by - Kelly Kahl)
I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy. (Quote by - Graham Norton)
I loved Old School. I thought Old School was very different than a lot of the comedies that had come out. And that character I liked. I tried to ground him very much in reality and play him very much finding things important to him that are somewhat ridiculous. (Quote by - Vince Vaughn)
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
It can flip on a dime from being almost farce-like to being quite serious and then back. That's what a lot of us like. I would say it's a comedy more than a drama. But then there are some episodes that are coming up that are straight drama. (Quote by - Aidan Quinn)
I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today. (Quote by - Garry Marshall)
I have been in bands before and so has Julian and I wanted to make comedy for people like The Strokes. (Quote by - Noel Fielding)
You could say there was a surfeit of rich comedy that year. The winner was Daniel Kitson and - just to illustrate how strong it was - Jimmy Carr came second. Any other year the runners-up would have been winners. (Quote by - The League)
Maybe we will, and we'll take the entire comedy industry with us. (Quote by - Dave Foley)
Who would ever have thought that I would win in the comedy or musical category? Not expected. (Quote by - Joaquin Phoenix)
He picks up on something - which is that whether you're a 50-year-old or an adolescent, you're on some kind of hormonal rollercoaster in those two age groups. So I'm not quite sure if it's serious comedy or funny drama. (Quote by - Geoffrey Rush)
It's like this all the time. When we play, it's a comedy act with music. (Quote by - Scott Crawford)
In the fall, I taught a course on Switzerland. We analyzed newspaper articles, lyrics, movies, and personal experiences to explore the concept of 'Swiss' identity. This semester, we're watching a variety of German films that deal with young people grappling with society. We've seen everything from feature films to comedies, soap operas, and sitcoms. (Quote by - Chris Weber)
I think that because it was comedy-horror instead of pure horror is where the problem lay. It's the first comedy-horror in a long time, and maybe the marketplace just isn't ready for comedy-horror yet. It's difficult to think of other explanations. (Quote by - Paul Brooks)
I think the mother-daughter between Estelle and me was one made in comedy heaven. (Quote by - Bea Arthur)
Bill Maher is one of today's most insightful comedic minds who has, through his comedy, influenced political debate in this country. This performance is Maher at his best, and will appeal to both die-hard and new Bill Maher fans alike. (Quote by - Barry Gordon)
It's a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it's a comedy with opera mixed in. (Quote by - Bryan Adams)
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. (Quote by - Julianne Moore)
He was a smart guy who wrote witty, situational comedies. (Quote by - Bob Foster)
As is the case every year, submissions for consideration by the Peabody Board provide insight into the astonishing array of electronic media productions. These are the works self-selected by creators and producers as their very best work from the previous calendar year. This year's Peabody Award recipients stand as hallmarks of excellence in news, documentary, comedy, drama, education and public service. (Quote by - Horace Newcomb)
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. (Quote by - Wislawa Szymborska)
A subtle comedy part, I think, requires more finesse than a heavy dramatic role. (Quote by - Dinah Sheridan)
It is less artificial than his other comedies. The epigrams do not seem to have been added on like candied cherries on a cake. (Quote by - Ted Morgan)
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. (Quote by - Eric Idle)
I didn't know whether Sam would come in and want to try to be funny or try to add to the comedy by creating a comedy version of the character people know him to play. He played it very straight, and that was his instinct and that was the right instinct. (Quote by - Eugene Levy)
Life is the greatest movie out there. It's got your favorite protagonist your most hated antagonist and manages to mix drama, horror, comedy, romance, action and it has some crazy plot twists along the way. Only thing missing is a theme song. (Quote by - Jacob T. Atkinson I)
I think in troubled times, we're going to see the same genre that worked during the depression comedy. People need to escape, they need to laugh, they need to forget the grim realities of the world. Comedies are going to become king at the box office. (Quote by - Martin Grove)
Comedy naturally wears itself out destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
