Quotes about Comedy
I knew I wanted a 'Girls'-type show about my life, but what's the big thing that happened to me? Oh, I got married when I was young.
- Pete Holmes
I think as a blonde person with make-up on, you're automatically the punchline to the joke.
- Emily Atack
Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant.
- Carol Burnett
It's a lovely moment when everyone's part of something greater than the sum of its parts. That encapsulates what a comedy gig should be, with the comic as the lightning rod, the Norse mischief god, getting the audience to do something they wouldn't necessarily do.
- Bill Bailey
We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or just garbage. My dad wouldn't let us watch 'The Flintstones' if he was home, because he said it was a rip-off of 'The Honeymooners'. But he would let us stay up really late in the summer and watch old 'Honeymooners'.
- Tina Fey
A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.
- David Walton
The script that I fell in love with and adored was 'Jane the Virgin'... but every line in the pilot was essentially, 'Why did you keep my daughter a secret all of these years?' I didn't know any direction my character was going - was it going to be a dramatic character, a comedic character? - I didn't know.
- Jaime Camil
I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.
- Pete Holmes
It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.
- Ray Comfort
Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.
- Kevin Hart
heaven and earth, nature and man, comedy and tragedy, … the Virgin Mary and the demons...Mozart simply contains and includes all this within his music in perfect harmony. This harmony is not a matter of "balance" or "indifference" — it is a glorious upsetting of the balance, a turning in which the light rises and the shadows fall, in which the Yes rings louder than the ever-present
- Karl Barth