Comedy Quotes

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Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming… — Loren Acton
People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in… — Amy Gerstler
Wherever comes man comes tragedy and comedy also. — Amos Bronson Alcott
I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out. — Clive Anderson
But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when one is most… — Georgette Heyer
One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp. — Matt Labash
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as… — Michael Mandelbaum
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels… — Wilhelm Reich
If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've… — Roger McGough
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel â€“ a… — Horace Walpole
Ryan Stout,Â a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view.… — Ben Fong-Torres
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred. — Pico Iyer
I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up… — Dan Dierdorf
A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas… — Robert McKee
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. — Wislawa Szymborska
Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the… — Mariella Frostrup
I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career. — Dee Wallace
Movie 43 is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever. — Peter Farrelly
Well, being a Canadian, I love SCTV, and I think it's the basis for all good North American comedy, so I compare everything to that. — Melissa Auf der Maur
There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio and, new for… — Vincent Canby

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