Famous Quotes & Sayings

If 'Grapes of Wrath' were a musical comedy, this is what it would look like.

Jon Stewart

If I had to go out there and surf, that would be a problem. But you know, it's just comedy.

Lorne Michaels

His comedy doesn't come from a place of anger. He's got a kind of sweetness to him.

Fede Alvarez

Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.

Fede Alvarez

You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.

It's another comedy of errors. It's something that's totally unacceptable.

It's a completely new musical comedy that plays with form. As a result, you don't have any source material, except the invention of how you can create magic in the theater." ()

It's a completely new musical comedy that plays with form.

It's a comedy. It's a guy falling off a stool, and everybody thinks a guy falling off a stool is funny.

Hugh Hefner

I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.

Chelsea Peretti

I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's trying hard to be funny because it feels like they're auditioning for a comedy job or something. It doesn't feel romantic to me. I get so much comedy from my life that, from a guy, I'm more looking for something sweet or romantic.

Nina Tassler

Comedy was really our first priority heading into development season, and we wanted to reinforce Monday. And with Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jenna Elfman, we have two big star vehicles for mid-season.

William Hazlitt

Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

Jamie King

Comedy is what we do, curling is just a sideline.

Gilda Radner

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

Dave Coulier

Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.

Steve Coogan

I enjoy comedy but it can become wearisome.

Ted Levine

Good comedy is ageless.

Robert Duncan McNeill

I always loved working in comedy.

Richard Pryor

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

Michaela Watkins

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

George Clooney

If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

Natasha Richardson

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

Morgan Freeman

Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.

Kelli Berglund

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.

Matt LeBlanc

And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.

William Shakespeare

And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

Elayne Boosler

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

John Oliver

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

Joan Rivers

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

James L. Brooks

I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny.

Joe Rogan

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

Jimmy Carr

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.