Comedy Is Quotes

Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go. ~ Lucy Punch

Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke. ~ Eddie Izzard

I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young. ~ Joy Behar

I wish people would understand that comedy is an art form, and that the same thing that makes a Picasso painting is the same thing that gives Bill Cosby the ability to do an hour of comedy on his kids. ~ Godfrey

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road. ~ Brian Regan

Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is. ~ Paul Feig

When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks. ~ Larry The Cable Guy

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. ~ Susan Sontag

There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with every single person in the room. And if there's a weirdness in the room for any people, be it something the comedians did at the top of the set or be it the mixture of the people isn't right, something can go awry. So it's really great to see you proven wrong about someone. ~ B. J. Porter

The nature of comedy is 'just do it.' But I think what's interesting about it is this joke has been around and why. And it's just saying what's wrong and how wrong can you be if you say it. ~ Bob Saget

Comedy is a funny thing, and it's 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. You would never go to a club just to see "Live music," you would go to a jazz club to see jazz, a blues club to see blues, etc. But when you go to see "standup comedy," if you don't know the performers material, you really don't have any idea what you're gonna get. ~ Joe Rogan

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh. ~ Judy Gold

Comedy is the only hope for humanity. ~ Roseanne Barr

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it. ~ Alan King

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is ... thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.' ~ Bill Hicks

Mean comedy is not really something that I personally gravitate towards or something that I do. ~ Kristen Wiig

My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart. ~ Tim Allen

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black light on life to illuminate the absurdity of it all. Comics tell you a truth you can only see from the underside of the psyche. At its best, comedy is prophesy and societal dream interpretation. At its worst it's just dick jokes. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. ~ Jerry Stiller

Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice. ~ Bryan Callen

So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who I find hilarious now, but the first couple of times I saw 'em, I was like "What is this? I don't get it at all." ~ Scott Aukerman

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. ~ Will Ferrell

Knowing comedy is knowing human nature. ~ Patton Oswalt

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. ~ Phyllis Diller

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural. ~ Bo Burnham

My comedy is unapologetic and fearless. Like, sometimes you'll wind up having condomless sex with someone that you probably shouldn't. I'm interested in sharing that part of myself unapologetically so that other people will hopefully feel better. ~ Amy Schumer

Comedy is something that I'm definitely looking to get into. I had a little taste of it and I do intend on going to classes for it because I think it's a different muscle, and it's hard to find female comedians. ~ Ashley Greene

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else. ~ W.C. Fields

I don't really know what 'selling out' is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody's buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It's always too dirty. It's always too filthy. I'm dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free. ~ Margaret Cho

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen. ~ Patrick Dempsey

Everything about starting out in comedy is pride-swallowing, from handing out fliers to bombing in front of audiences. ~ Mike Birbiglia

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. ~ Mike Birbiglia

The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry. ~ W.S. Merwin

I'll tell you one thing ... no doubt about it, my favorite kind of comedy is talking head comedy. I mean, if it were up to me, I'd do a whole entire movie that was just around a dinner table. ~ Adam McKay

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. ~ Mack Sennett

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them. ~ Trevor Noah

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it. ~ Madeline Kahn

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

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything. ~ Ron Funches

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak. ~ Ian Hislop

Too much comedy is filthy these days. There's nothing they won't say. I like Jimmy Carr, but I don't like the language he uses. I don't understand why he feels it necessary; I find it extremely offensive. ~ Bobby Davro

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do. ~ Martha Graham

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power. ~ Judy Gold

I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way. ~ Sharlto Copley

Comedy is hard. In many ways, it's like singing: If you have perfect pitch, it's much easier. But you can still go a long way toward mastering the rudiments if you must trust your voice. Most of the mistakes I've seen people make in trying to write funny is that they don't trust their own senses of humor. They don't think they're funny, and they set out to write funny the way they've read other people being funny with a grim determination that pretty much precludes any chance that anybody is going to have fun. Relax, listen to your characters, exploit their fears and flaws, and mine their situations for places in which they can use their own brands of humor. ~ Jennifer Crusie

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. ~ Dawn Powell

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy. ~ Sandra Bullock

To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play. ~ Alex O'Loughlin

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. ~ Anne Dudley

I never defend my material. Comedy is subjective. ~ Sarah Silverman

I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It keeps me limber. I'll never lose that. And comedy is still the bread and butter. ~ Martin Short

The more you progress, the more you learn. I try to pay attention to ticket counts, draws, guarantees and bonuses. I look at my deals closely these days and try to come up with other projects and ideas, since this business [comedy] is about creating content. ~ Hannibal Buress

You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here. ~ Matt LeBlanc

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character. ~ Chris Meledandri

I've been a huge fan of the cable network FX for a very, very long time. I think their brand of comedy is incredible. For me, as an audience member, that's a go-to channel. ~ Chris Klein

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end. ~ Rob Sheffield

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle. ~ Tom Hiddleston

Comedy is harder than drama, because with comedy you're expecting a result..you make them laugh. [If] they ain't laughing then you're screwed. ~ Billy Bob Thornton

When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing. ~ Chris Rock

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time. ~ Pierce Brosnan

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny. ~ Sandra Bullock

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. ~ Ellen Page

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify. ~ Alan King

Comedy is a meritocracy. If you are funny, you are there. If you are not, you are out. ~ Kevin Feige

Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy. ~ Betty White

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, "Maybe it works," but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more. ~ Jack Nicholson

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die. ~ Mel Brooks

Comedy is a way of joking with everything and getting away with it. ~ Deyth Banger

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. ~ Eddie Izzard

Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated. ~ Michael Che

I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything. I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it. I think it's a great remedy for many things. ~ Brian Regan

I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama. ~ Kevin Grevioux

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime. ~ Adriana Trigiani

In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing. ~ Eric Bana

In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I'm set. ~ Mindy Kaling

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you. ~ Maureen O'Hara

That's the nature of comedy - you always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective. ~ Margaret Cho

Comedy is king. It has to be. ~ Steve Pink

Comedy is tragedy revisited. ~ Phyllis Diller

Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response. ~ Aimee Garcia

I think comedy is the hardest art form there is. ~ John Popper

Comedy is the ultimate anarchist. ~ Tim Allen

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid. ~ Alison Brie

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me. ~ Joe Rogan

I've always wanted to do action stuff. I like it. You really want something that's special; that's got something special about it and not cheesy, I guess. I'll tell you something, it's fun, it's different. Comedy is difficult. Doing comedy is very difficult. Action stuff is fun. ~ Matt Dillon

To spoon-feed people their comedy is not the proper evolution of the art. ~ Michael Mosley

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form. ~ Alan Ruck

I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My problem with comedy is to want to clown it up, but she's the funny one. Those are her jokes, not mine. For me, it's a lot of not doing anything. I just don't want to muck it up. ~ John Cho

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it. ~ Matt LeBlanc

Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch. ~ Deepika Padukone

I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. ~ Ricky Gervais

E foundation to a good friendship is trust but the foundation to good comedy is by betraying your friends. ~ Daniel Tosh

Most of my comedy is accidental, I would say. If I don't know what the joke is, I'm going to play it better than if I do. ~ Aya Cash

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. ~ Steve Martin

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with. ~ Drew Carey

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing. ~ Abe Burrows

At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put all the music away and become a real comedian.' But then I realized there are amazing musical comedians out there, that musical comedy is probably something I'll always want to pursue. ~ Bo Burnham