Comedy Quotes

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Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. — Marty Feldman
Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. — Eddie Izzard
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… — Carl Reiner
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. — Shelley Berman
I will always love to perform standup comedy. — Shelley Berman
We couldn't live without comedy. — Sean O'Casey
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story,… — David Chase
The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate… — Mary Tyler Moore
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to… — David Hume
I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy. — Aaron Eckhart
I'd like to do a romantic comedy. — Aaron Eckhart
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to… — John Lahr
So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame… — Sam Kinison
Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you… — Jack Dee
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe
I've always just been attracted to comedy. — Oscar Nunez
An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out… — Elinor Lipman
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as… — Leonard Maltin
A lot of people think I'm difficult to work with. It's not like I really want to do that much stuff, so it doesn't really… — Norm MacDonald

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