Comedy Quotes - Page 19

• Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Spiritual, Writing, Giving

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• Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Complaining, Way, Entertaining

  Twitter post from Aug 06, 2011

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• In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

  Chris Lilley

  Hero, Australia, Intention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and I would always sit down and watch some of the classics. Bottle Rocket is one of my favorite comedies.

  Sarah Wright

  Brother, Thinking, Watches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

  Anne Beatts

  New York, Thinking, Lucky

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• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Healthy, Way

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• One of my favorite comedies is Three Amigos! Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.

  Jason Dolley

  Brother, Three, My Favorite

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• At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy family.

  Jen Kirkman

  Clubs, Firsts, Kind

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• I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

  Kyle Dunnigan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

  Robert Webb

  Tvs, Grew Up, British

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• I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

  Robert Webb

  Thinking, Bored, Imagine

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• 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, Arguing

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• I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. Enough Said had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Fun, Fall, Thinking

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• And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Laughing, Honor

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

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• Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Adventure, Levels

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• After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.

  Preston Sturges

  Couple, Fun, Directors

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• My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Masters, Trade, Jack Of All Trades

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• There are a lot of comics at the top end making staggering amounts of money and selling out stadiums. I think stand-up is a more intimate thing than that. Maybe because of the kind of comedy I do. It's like a discussion, but I'm the one with the microphone.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Thinking, Kind, Selling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Generosity

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

  Lynn Shelton

  Stories, Stuff, Way

  "Interview with Lynn Shelton, Director of Humpday". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 08, 2009.

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• A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Hurt, Laughing So Hard, Finding Yourself

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• My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

  Ruth Wilson

  Parent, Roles, Saying Please

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  Dan Harmon

  Writing, Rocks, Gold

  "Community creator Dan Harmon". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. September 23, 2010.

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• You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, People, Worry

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior.

  Todd Phillips

  Thinking, Directors, Fans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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