Top 28 Comedy Philosophy Quotes
#1. I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.
Ted Alexandro
#2. If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
Hal Sparks
#3. Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#4. Good man and bad man with money goes a long ways." ~ Amunhotep El Bey
Amunhotep El Bey
#6. LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
#8. In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong
Benny Bellamacina
#9. Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Aristotle.
#10. And as their penile pain began to subside, the two men were able to form more complex thoughts, resulting in a collaborative work: the development of a worldview that might be described as penilosophy.
Zack Love
#13. As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
Lao-Tzu
#14. 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
#15. A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.
Debasish Mridha
#16. I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.
Christoph Waltz
#17. My philosophy is making a movie is difficult enough and I just feel as if you should have a really good time when you do make films whether it's a drama or a comedy.
Will Packer
#18. When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.
Andy Daly
#19. The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn't even check for traffic. There wasn't any, but something told me this was lucky for traffic rather than the stalker.
Graham Parke
#20. Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
Chris Hardwick
#21. My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
Dwayne Johnson
#22. Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.
Neel Burton
#23. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.
Kumail Nanjiani
#26. If you cannot find an element of Humour in something, your not taking it seriously enough.
Ilyas Kassam
#27. I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.
Mathew Baynton
#28. There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions, and wooooords.
George Carlin
