Top 43 British Comedy Quotes
#1. I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.
Rhianna Pratchett
#2. It always interested me that 'Goodness Gracious Me' and 'The Kumars,' when shown around the world, were referred to as British comedy. It was only here that they were referred to as Asian comedy, even though I always felt it was very British in its humour and structure.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
#3. Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
Mike Myers
#4. I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.
Paul Feig
#5. I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.
Mara Wilson
#6. I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces.
Ricky Gervais
#7. You know, I think British comedy is very smart comedy. You don't get too much dumb comedy over here. Or at least I haven't seen it. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize to all the dumb comedy makers over here.
Matt LeBlanc
#8. When I do watch things, they tend to be a lot of comedies. I actually like some of the British comedy series. But, on the whole, I'm not a huge viewer of anything.
Lucy Griffiths
#9. American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.
Chris Hardwick
#10. British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.
Jason Gann
#11. There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people try to use their intellect to get themselves out of tricky situations but never quite manage to do so - much to their enormous embarrassment.
Christopher Lloyd
#13. I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.
Danny McBride
#14. I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers.' I'm a huge fan of British comedy.
Isla Fisher
#15. 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' is a British comedy-drama directed by John Madden. The film is based on the 2004 novel, 'These Foolish Things', by Deborah Moggach.
Tena Desae
#16. He looks like a horse in a man costume!
Dylan Moran
#17. I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both countries. So much of the comedy that comes out of Canada is impersonation - it's less 'look at me' than it is 'look at me playing other people.'
Eric McCormack
#18. My grandad always said, "You should never judge a book by its cover." And it's for that reason that he lost his job as chair of the British Book Cover Awards panel.
Stewart Lee
#19. After a hard day, try to think of something good about it before you go to sleep - the result may surprise you.
John Avery
#20. We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading.
Molly Harper
#21. Some people just don't find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.
Charlotte Fallowfield
#22. I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class.
Alyssa Milano
#23. I recently finished a job, an HBO movie 'Getting On,' a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.
Niecy Nash
#24. I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.
T. J. Miller
#25. My oldest brother used to take me to the theater. The first play he took me to see was 'Black Comedy,' then he took me to see 'Butley.' We'd see all these British plays. And 'Hello, Dolly,' with Pearl Bailey. I was unconsciously thinking, 'Gee, I would love to be able to do that.'
Nathan Lane
#26. British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death
John Oliver
#27. If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Johann Georg Hamann
#28. Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main part of the theatre, and comedians earned a living by being funny. Now you have comedy in television instead. Comedians now have to be funny within a play.
Norman Wisdom
#30. Sometimes men change for the better. Sometimes men change for the worse. And often, very often, given time and opportunity . . .' He waved his flask around for a moment, then shrugged. 'They change back.
Joe Abercrombie
#31. I think most of my tastes were British, as far as comedy went, when I was growing up.
Scott Adsit
#32. The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it.
Kurt Busch
#33. When what you're doing doesn't work for 50 years, it's time to try something new.
Barack Obama
#34. You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.
William J. Clinton
#35. What was that?" I ask as I blow through.
"You were behind schedules," she says, panting but keeping pace next to me as we sprint down the pier. "Figured you could use some help, so I blew the transformer.
Tera Lynn Childs
#36. The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, Did I make the best use of the time I had?
Arthur Ashe
#37. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday
Don Marquis
#38. Therefore, beware of everything that takes away your freedom. Know that it is dangerous, and avoid it by all the means in your power.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. I actually felt calmer and more serene when we got up to the tower that I think I ever have. We had literally done everything we could to prepare.
Roseline Filion
#41. Judith (sadly): A change has come over my children of late. I have tried to shut my eyes to it, but in vain. At my time of life one must face bitter facts!
Noel Coward Sir
#42. Being a mother is the most fun job I've ever had.
Ellen Pompeo
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