Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janeane Garofalo

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

Harry Shearer

Music often happens even faster than comedy in terms of the creation.

Gus Van Sant

I had wanted to do a comedy.

Jesse Ventura

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

Mike Birbiglia

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

Mike Birbiglia

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

Ivan Reitman

Well, actually, I did start out in comedies. Very, very early.

Jim Davis

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Ciaran Hinds

I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

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.

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.

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.

Dwayne Hickman

I feel like a part of me is gone, too. We were a comedy team and I was proud to be his straight man. He was a wonderful comedian. Underrated, really.

Jasper Fforde

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,

Jane Levy

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Lorne Michaels

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

Greg Garcia

If you can walk away from a comedy thinking it was funny yet also feeling good about the people you watched and the journey they went on, then all the better.

I have such a passion for this show, because it is not your typical musical comedy piece. There is so much depth,

Garry Marshall

I didn't think some of the comedy was current enough to be funny today,

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.

Horace Walpole

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Horace Walpole

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

The volume of comedy stuff is exploding. It's a very social genre for sharing a laugh.