Comedy Quotes

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life, Wise, Fool

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck

Humor, Hurt, Pain

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

Life, Seen, Tragedy

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

Die, Fall, Open

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Will Smith

Life, Real, Black

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
Ellen DeGeneres

Funny, Laugh, Feelings

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

Girl, Pretty, Park

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Funny, Serious, Simply

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

Funny, God, Bad

I was a huge fan of comedy when I was a child.
Ron White

Child, Fan, Huge

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks

Life, Around, Literally

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.
Woody Allen

Problems, Rather, Bit

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst

Hope, Fear, Laughter

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin

Art, Laugh, Making

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

Art, Laughter, Fake

Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams

Acting, Optimism

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey

Laugh, Down, Old

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.
Henry Rollins

Hard, Trying, Club

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere

Men, Duty, Correct

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.
Steve Martin

Everything, Serious, While

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin

Success, Learning, Fame

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
Steve Martin

Place, Off, Hook

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m.
Ellen DeGeneres

Women, Live, Hard

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere

Men, Why, Reason

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Bryant H. McGill

Laugh, Why, Often

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve Martin

Business, May, Pretty

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.
Steve Martin

Good, Beautiful, Emotional

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.
Steve Martin

Play, Show, Stand

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