Eric Idle Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

• Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

  Eric Idle

  Tragedy, Trying, Comedy

• Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

  Eric Idle

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

• When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.

  Eric Idle

  Writing, Order, Practice

  Source: whitmanwire.com

• To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

  Eric Idle

  Song, Musical, Doe

• Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

  Eric Idle

  Comedy, Spots, Wells

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

• I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Littles, Comedy

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". "Lateline" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

• I don't necessarily know much about comedy, I don't spend a lot of time watching it. Mainly because all my life for about 50 years I've had comedy.

  Eric Idle

  Years, Comedy, Knows

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

• I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

  Eric Idle

  Comedy, Tradition, Cambridge

  Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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