Comedy English Quotes

#1. Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple. Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance

Alison Wong

#2. The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

Bjork

#3. Excuse me, I must go and putt

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

Barry Humphries

#5. You can have a lot of fun with rhinos

Wilkie Martin

#6. I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

Kate Bush

#7. Speak English at this table or I will fire you so fast you'll wind up standing at the airport wondering how you got from here to there without any goddamn pants on.

Mira Grant

#8. When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.

Finley Peter Dunne

#9. The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

David Edelstein

#10. Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

Rachel Cusk

#11. My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Gad Elmaleh

#12. When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.

Vir Das

#13. The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the treasures of the history of children's TV and of comedy basically.

James Bobin

#14. Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

David Ives

#15. Aditi is a comedy superstar over in India. She's only one of three female English-speaking comedians in India.

Hasan Minhaj

#16. The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.

Jim Davis

#17. Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

P.G. Wodehouse

#18. I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.

Jane Austen

#19. In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.

Paul Merton