Comedy Quotes

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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop… — Bo Burnham
This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter… — Ann Coulter
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could… — Peter De Vries
A married philosopher belongs to comedy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and… — Spoken Reasons
Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity. — Eckhart Tolle
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible. — Cynthia Ozick
I do love the road, because for me, the road is very comfortable, and it's very much what I've always wanted to do. It's one… — Margaret Cho
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. — Eric Bentley
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion;… — Arthur Koestler
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving
I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone. — Steven Moffat
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of… — Steven Moffat
When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are… — Steven Moffat
The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's… — Steven Moffat
Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly. — W. Somerset Maugham
In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same… — Channing Tatum
Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did. — Pat Morita
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is… — Susanne Katherina Langer

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