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Comedy

«Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.»
Author: Christopher Fry (Writer) | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy, narrow, narrow escape
«Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.»
«Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.»
Author: Peter Ustinov | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy
«Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.»
Author: Sid Caesar | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy, curlicue
«All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.»
«Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages»
«A mind is like a parachute. If it doesn't open, you're fucked!»
Author: Don Williams, Jr | About: Comedy, Humor, Irony
«Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.»
«Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke»
Author: Steve Martin (Actor, Comedian, Musician, Producer, Writer) | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy, puke
«And to answer the question that people have about this conspiracy theory that he has a pack in his back, my answer is, if someone was feeding him answers, couldn't they be able to feed him better ones than he came up with?»

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