Comedy Quotes

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I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone… — Jonathan Tropper
Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is conÂnected to the rhythm of music. Theyâ€™re both about creating tension and knowing when… — Conan O'Brien
A comedy isnâ€™t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. — Gary D. Schmidt
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt
I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it. — Dylan Moran
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks,… — Desiderius Erasmus
I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself. — Chelsea Handler
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that… — Aberjhani
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and… — Oscar Wilde
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we… — Charlie Chaplin
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic… — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it… — Dean Koontz
Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses. — Rainbow Rowell
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. — Charlie Chaplin
Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Donâ€™t watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring… — Rainbow Rowell
If you had to relive your life exactly as it was â€“ same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and… — Gavin Extence
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… — Will Durst
Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about… — Stephen Colbert
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld
Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward. — Cary Grant

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