Comedy Quotes

• 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 take the audience for a tumble.

  

  John Lahr
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Inspired

• I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Music
  • Band
  • Records

• To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Work
  • Character
  • Drama

• So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Interesting
  • Comedy

• The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.

  

  Janet Street-Porter
  • Black
  • Moments
  • Wedding

• Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Wrestling

• I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Drama

• I love a good comedy, but the slapstick sitcom belly-laugh sort of comedy - the multicam thing - is not really where my interests lie. I'm very interested in single-cam, in intimate portraits. I like it when comedies have a little bit of realism and a little bit of darkness to them. It makes them more palatable and more relatable and grounded.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Good
  • Lie
  • Intimate

• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Done
  • Day

• Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Small
  • Get Away
  • Exaggeration

• After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Starting

• All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Mirror
  • Films
  • Jokes

• I want to go play a villain or an action hero or a nice, light, romantic comedy or something. That would be good.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Good
  • Light
  • Action

• Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Comedy

• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Just

• Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Life
  • Music
  • Tragedy

• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Growing
  • Comedy
  • Obsessed

• Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Family
  • Movie

• I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the interesting ones to talk about. I played some pretty random ones in L.A. I signed to play all-R&B nights or an all-comedy night where I'd be the only white person there. They were fun.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Up
  • Done
  • Fun

• I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Comedy
  • Training
  • Theatre

• Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

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