Comedy Quotes

2637 Comedy quotes by 1344 unique authors

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
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it. — Robert Orben
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression… — Elbert Hubbard
One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three. — Elbert Hubbard
Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious. — Helen Fielding
If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far… — Helen Fielding
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of… — Ellen DeGeneres
The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that… — Denis Norden
I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians… — Paul Reiser
Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice. — Dick Cavett
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,… — Lenny Bruce

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