Best Comedy Quotes

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  Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!

  John Belushi

  Silly, Pearls, Hell

  "Fictional character: John Blutarsky (Bluto)". "Animal House", www.imdb.com. July 27, 1978.

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• I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

  Graham Chapman

  Mother, Father, Animal

  "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

  Peter Sellers

  Inspirational, Funny, Movie

  "Fictional character: President Merkin Muffley". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Thinking, Missing, World

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• The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

  Ian Hislop

  Strong, Comedy, Weak

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• I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not necessarily in his comedies.

  Chukwudi Iwuji

  Thinking, Tragedy, Comedy

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2016.

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• There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

  Steve Coogan

  Strong, Challenges, Doe

  "Steve Coogan: I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough" by Steve Coogan, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.

  Andy Kindler

  Awards, Comedy, Made

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• I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

  Julie Delpy

  Thinking, Directors, Comedy

  "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

  Marlon Wayans

  Thinking, Directors, Visionaries

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now.

  Conan O'Brien

  Reading, Guy, Brain

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• There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules.

  Robin Ince

  Writing, Thinking, Patterns

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• The best comedy is always played straight down the middle.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Comedy, Middle

  "Interview: Tom Hiddleston Talks 'avengers' Humor, Drama, and Where Loki May Go in 'thor 2' (Exclusive)". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.fandango.com. May 2 2012.

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• I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Comedy

  "Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel Interview - YES MAN". Press conference, collider.com. December 17, 2008.

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• The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

  Ray Romano

  Drama, Balance, Comedy

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• I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Modern Family, Wish

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• That's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.

  Will Ferrell

  Exercise, Thinking, Acting

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2003.

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• I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of a black streak through all of it. It's not deliberate: it's what makes me laugh, and there's a fine tradition of it, especially in Ireland.

  Sharon Horgan

  Thinking, Laughing, Black

  "Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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• If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Funny, Play, Understanding

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• I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

  Dylan Moran

  Night, Rocks, Feelings

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• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

  Burt Ward

  Children, Business, Writing

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• It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint.

  Will Arnett

  Looks, Comedy, Public Relations

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• The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.

  Chevy Chase

  People, Comedy, Knows

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• The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Atlanta, Boston

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• This week's winner for best comedy line about the war is New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer. Referring to - well, it doesn't really matter what he was referring to.

  Ann Coulter

  New York, War, Lines

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.25, Crown Forum

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