Comedy Quotes

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To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life. — Steven Wright
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was… — Steven Wright
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art.… — Steven Wright
I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight… — Steven Wright
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I… — Henny Youngman
'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person… — Neill Blomkamp
Comedy comes from confusion. — Vir Das
I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy. — Vir Das
In Bollywood, I think Boman Irani and Vinay Pathak are unbelievably good at comedy. — Vir Das
I have a rule - 'funny is funny!' When I write comedy, it's not my aim to upset people. I will be offensive, edgy and… — Vir Das
Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough… — Michael Eric Dyson
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes. — Chris Hardwick
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to… — Chris Hardwick
If you make comedy, if you try and make comedy where no one gets upset or offended, you're going to fail. — Tucker Max
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category. — Brendan O'Carroll
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. — John Oliver
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go. — John Oliver
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. — John Oliver
The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. — Kurt Vonnegut
Comedy = tragedy + time. — Carol Burnett

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