Top 100 Comedy Is Quotes
#1. I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a period of time - comedy and tragedy go hand in hand.
Gore Verbinski
#2. I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.
Antonio Banderas
#3. 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
#4. What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.
Peyton Reed
#5. Comedy is really best when watched with other people, and I don't really understand people who sit at home watching comedy movies on Netflix.
Scott Aukerman
#6. Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
Trevor Noah
#7. Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.
Brandon Jay McLaren
#8. Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.
Jon Stewart
#9. Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language.
Albert Brooks
#10. I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line ... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.
George Carlin
#11. Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.
Aleksey Igudesman
#12. Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a combat zone not to pay attention to it. At least that's how it struck me; others may have had an entirely different war experience.
Dave Abrams
#13. Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable.
Mindy Greenstein
#14. Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.
Dov Davidoff
#15. I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.
Evan Peters
#16. Comedy is similar to hockey ... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.
Johnny Galecki
#17. Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
Madeline Kahn
#18. Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
Mason Cooley
#19. Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.
Mel Brooks
#20. Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
Norm MacDonald
#21. Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
Aziz Ansari
#22. Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
Colin Firth
#23. You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
#24. I can't speak for every American comic, but for me, a great show is its own reward. Comedy is too subjective for awards.
Michael Che
#25. Comedy is surprise. Comedy is not something that you can, necessarily, do twice.
Bryan Callen
#26. I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.
Joan Rivers
#28. For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.
Chris Rock
#29. Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.
Hiam Abbass
#30. Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better
Ricky Gervais
#31. I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
Stephen Mangan
#32. Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
Chuck Jones
#33. Comedy and tragedy are basically the same thing. Comedy is just the art of making light of life's sufferings. Turning all your pain into a joke.
Katie Kacvinsky
#35. Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language ... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
Barry Humphries
#36. The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are just a piece of their puzzle.
Dane Cook
#37. Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.
Trevor Noah
#38. The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.
Laurence Olivier
#39. I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
Alison Brie
#40. Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.
Paul Goodman
#41. Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.
Judy Gold
#42. I think a shot can actually influence a scene in a huge way. For example, comedy is always better in a two-shot. What's between the characters is what's funny. So you learn about these things as you go along.
Emily Blunt
#43. I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian.
Mike Birbiglia
#44. Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.
Artie Lange
#45. Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.
Goldie Hawn
#46. For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.
Jim Gaffigan
#47. Doing comedy is as easy as doing anything else. You're dependent totally on the material.
Morgan Freeman
#48. I find that comedy is my specialty, but drama is slowly starting to move up in that rank. I've always liked playing a character that has depth and that I'm able to bring my own niche to.
Texas Battle
#49. 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
#50. Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
Alan King
#51. What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.
Trevor Noah
#52. People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
Richard Linklater
#53. I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.
Demetri Martin
#54. I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
Patton Oswalt
#55. 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
#56. I think physical comedy is an amazing asset because it tells a story that's more universal than just language and dialogue. I grew up watching Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. They're very powerful figures in my life.
Josh Gad
#57. The gift of comedy is often best delivered on the wings of understatement.
Tony Bulmer
#59. I don't know if comedy is a male sport. I always wondered that.
Maya Rudolph
#60. I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.
Sandra Bullock
#61. The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'
Paul Feig
#62. The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.
Northrop Frye
#63. It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.
Jenna Elfman
#64. Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
Harold Ramis
#65. If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
Susan Sontag
#67. A comedy isn't about being funny ... a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.
Gary D. Schmidt
#68. Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?
Jenna Elfman
#69. I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
Robert Webb
#70. Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!
Craig Robinson
#71. Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
Chuck Jones
#72. Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.
Gerald Stern
#73. My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.
Conan O'Brien
#74. Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.
Sandra Bullock
#75. I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
Taraji P. Henson
#76. Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.
Maureen O'Hara
#77. Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.
Sandra Bullock
#78. I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.
Alan Ruck
#79. Fear of comedy is all so much about who you do it with.
Mike Nichols
#80. Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would not have seemed funny then.
Craig Brown
#81. The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.
Mack Sennett
#82. When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all, but they're not going to lose it until they get the hits. Comedy is the same thing.
Chris Rock
#83. Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid.
Nick Swardson
#84. Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.
Bo Burnham
#85. The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#86. Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
Patrick Dempsey
#87. With comedy, you get an immediate response. I'm the whole kit and the kaboodle. I am the whole thing and can steer the whole situation how I want to. With film, you are basically in one area. Comedy is straight to it and the film is heavily shaped the camera and editing, so it's different.
Joe Torry
#88. Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.
Ed Speleers
#89. I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.
Betty White
#90. And what more can hobbits do? They can be comic, but their comedy is suburban unless it is set against things more elemental.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. The best thing about where comedy is now is if you have a little bit of talent and a strong work ethic, and strong social skills, you can make a name for yourself and you can make money.
Donnell Rawlings
#92. Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.
Amanda Tapping
#93. Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.
Sarah Silverman
#94. Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.
Jim Carrey
#95. Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.
Gabriel Iglesias
#96. The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.
Ken Marino
#97. A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?
Alan Ayckbourn
#98. Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.
Eddie Izzard
#99. Trying to look cool and lovely in comedy is a recipe for disaster. You have to let go.
Lucy Punch
