Roger Ebert Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

  Roger Ebert

  Philosophical, Delight, Care

  Roger Ebert (2008). “The Great Movies II”, p.278, Crown Archetype

• If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.

  Roger Ebert

  Teenager, Mean, Hollywood

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

• If there's anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it's an incompetent stupid action comedy. It's not so bad it's good. It's so bad it's nothing else but bad.

  Roger Ebert

  Hate, Stupid, Comedy

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.597, Andrews McMeel Publishing

• There are two things you can't argue in film: comedy and eroticism. If something doesn't make you laugh, no one can tell you why it's funny, and it's difficult to reason someone out of an erection.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Laughing, Comedy

• It is hard enough to be good at all, but to be good in comedy speaks for your character.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Comedy, Speak

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