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Comedy

«The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.»
«This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.»
«See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.»
«Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework»
«The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.»
Author: Jerry Seinfeld (Actor, Comedian) | About: Comedy | Keywords: levels, The Four
«The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.»
Author: Moliere (Actor, Playwright, Writer) | About: Comedy | Keywords: amusing, comedy
«The only way I can make a Jim Carrey face is through Novocain at the dentist?s office.»
«There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.»
Author: Vanna Bonta | About: Comedy, Tragedy, Truth
«The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.»
«Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand? They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.'»
Author: Mitch Hedberg (Comedian) | About: Comedy, Funny, silly

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