"All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people."
Read quote
3 likes
Comedy quotes
Comedy
1.6K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Comedy
Browse quotes that often appear alongside comedy — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Comedy quotes (page 12 of 81)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone."
Read quote
3 likes
"As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that."
Read quote
3 likes
"I love comedy, and I think thats sort of what comes naturally to me."
Read quote
3 likes
"Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man."
Read quote
3 likes
"The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it."
Read quote
3 likes
"One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like."
Read quote
3 likes
"It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy."
Read quote
3 likes
"I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny."
Read quote
3 likes
"What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter."
Read quote
3 likes
"I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine."
Read quote
3 likes
"A married philosopher belongs to comedy."
Read quote
3 likes
"Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it."
Read quote
3 likes
"Une ample Come die a' cent actes divers, Et dont la sce' ne est l'Univers. A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe."
Read quote
3 likes
"Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder."
Read quote
3 likes
"I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up."
Read quote
3 likes
"The understatement is the English contribution to comedy."
Read quote
3 likes
"Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit anti-American - so I never did."
Read quote
3 likes
"There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much."
Read quote
3 likes