Comedy Quotes

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I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need… — Dick Van Dyke
Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing. — Dick Van Dyke
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them.… — Dick Van Dyke
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel, Ocean Avenue in… — Dick Van Dyke
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed… — Roger Ebert
I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects. — Jenny Eclair
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart. — Jenny Eclair
If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That's the greatest sketch comedy you'll ever see… — Jamie Farr
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on… — Paul Feig
Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women. — Paul Feig
I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess. — Paul Feig
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. — Paul Feig
The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a story around the… — Paul Feig
We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days. — Paul Feig
Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?'… — Paul Feig
Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think is… — Paul Feig
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. — Craig Ferguson
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think… — Will Ferrell
I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny. — Will Ferrell
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in… — Will Ferrell

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