C Quotes
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“Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.”
Source: Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
“Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.”
“Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, its the best feeling in the world.”
“Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.”
“Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.”
“Comedy is very important. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally a conversion, because if people tune in or go to a nightclub or even watch television, and hear that a lot of other people are laughing at something you thought was not funny, at least it'll force you to reconsider.”
“Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris a couple of weeks ago. They were making comics - which were really satire - but it offended people. I'm not saying the reaction was justified but there's definitely a line when you're doing comedy or satire and how it might affect somebody. That's the thing you have to watch and I think you have to be respectful of it.”
“Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.”
“Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.”
“Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.”
“Comedy is what keeps us alive.”
“Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.”
“Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.”
“Comedy isn't really something where you get discovered. You can't network your way to being funny or talented. It's not hard to get seen if you're funny. If you're funny, talented, and work hard, you will go somewhere.”
“Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation.”
“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”
“Comedy keeps the heart sweet.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Comedy makes everything accessible. Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill. What's fun about it? Nothing. And so if you can get news and information about things going on in the world through a comic platform, everything's going to connect.”
“Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.”
“Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.”
“Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.”
“Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.”
“Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.”
“Comedy people are always present because they're always looking for the funniest version of whatever the line is. Sometimes theater people, where scripts are sacrosanct, aren't quite as present in scenes. That's a massive generalization, but in my experience, I find that comedy people are great to improvise with and to do scenes with because they're there.”
“Comedy really is my bread and butter, even when I'm doing a serious character, with the exception of Outcast. I have found very little humor in this character. Most of the time, what I do, somewhere there is comedy in it.”
“Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.”
“Comedy sees all our flaws, and foibles, and failings, and still doesn't hate us for them.”
Source: The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny
“Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don't want to bully people, and I don't want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. I'm actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn't say.”
“Comedy should never be over-analysed. It's either funny or it isn't. There's a subtle difference between those who say funny things and those who say things funny.”
“Comedy shows in D.C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D.C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.”
“Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.”
Source: A Critic's Notebook
“Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.”
Source: Art & ardor: essays
“Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.”
“Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.”
“Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.”
“Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them.”
“Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.”
“Comedy to the Senate? Well, there certainly hasn't been a satirist or a political satirist who's done that. So, that really was uncharted territory during the campaign. But I think it's a good thing. Some people thought that it was an odd career arc, but to me it made absolute sense.”
“Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.”
“Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)
“comedy = tragedy + 3 months or 3 margaritas”
Source: Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for When You're Feeling Unglued
“Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!”
“Comedy was all I ever wanted.”
Source: I'm the One That I Want
“Comedy was invented to make people forget,
That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.”
“Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.”
“Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it.”
“Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.”
“Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.”