Comedy Quotes - Page 4

• I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy.

  Dennis Miller

  Trust, Comedian, Hips

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• Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

  Mo Rocca

  Hypocrisy, Fodder

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• Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

  Lita Grey

  Funny, Humor, Genius

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• My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

  Anne Dudley

  Hard Work, Laughing, Oscars

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• The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

  Moliere

  Men, Amusing, Duty

  MOLIERE (1965). “TARTUFFE”

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• I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

  David Walliams

  Want, Radio, Firsts

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

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• Even in comedies, you've got to feel safe for things to just happen in a way that is natural and free, and recognizable as human.

  Richard Gere

  Safe, Way, Natural

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• My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

  Pauly Shore

  Mom, Dad, Roots

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• That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Girl, Confused, School

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• Comedy is tragedy plus time.

  Carol Burnett

  Life, Happiness, Time

  Carol Burnett (2016). “In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox”, p.112, Crown Archetype

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• The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Laughter, Fun, Strangers And Friends

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• To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

  Elayne Boosler

  Keys, Silence, Quiet

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• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

  Fred Allen

  Historical, Competition, Comedian

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.179, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

  Dawn Powell

  Age, Ingredients, Dupes

  Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

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• The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.

  Joe Rogan

  Dark, Creepy, Rooms

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• I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Witty, Time, Cutting

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• We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

  Drew Carey

  Exaggeration Is, Bigs, Said

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, November, 1997.

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• I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of.

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Drama, Finding The One

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

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• I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

  Gene Wilder

  Love, Ukulele, Careers

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• Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Romantic, Dream, Wells

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• It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

  John Leeson

  Golden, Eras, Fantastic

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• I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwiches? All-encompassingly.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Different

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• Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

  Marty Feldman

  Funny, Humor, Unnatural

  The Times, June 9, 1969.

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• I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

  Khandi Alexander

  Laughing

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