Comedy Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About Comedy:
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
~ Charlie Chaplin.
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
~ Joan Rivers.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
~ George Jean Nathan.
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
~ Lenny Bruce.
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
~ Tim Allen.
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them.
~ Ken Dodd.
In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I’m set."
~ Mindy Kaling.
The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever saw; makes itchy gestures as though he's got crabs under his arms, but he's funny.
~ Sterling Ford.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
~ Lenny Bruce.
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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