Comedy Quotes

2637 Comedy quotes by 1344 unique authors

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. — Tom Stoppard
I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.'… — Elaine Stritch
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process… — Twyla Tharp
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and… — James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. — James Thurber
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a… — James Thurber
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday. — Gabrielle Union
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and… — Gabrielle Union
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov
I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go… — Johnny Vegas
I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different… — Johnny Vegas
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine. — Johnny Vegas
'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy. — Jesse Ventura
Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else… — Tim Vine
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. — Christopher Walken
People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding. — Christopher Walken
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose… — Christopher Walken
Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around.… — Christopher Walken
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do… — Christopher Walken
I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically… — David Walliams
I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy… — David Walliams
I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first. — David Walliams
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. — Horace Walpole
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the… — Horace Walpole
I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. — Julie Walters

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