I’ve always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.
Comedy Quotes
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.
Comedy has been particularly unpropitious to definers; for though, perhaps, they might properly have contented themselves with declaring it to be such a dramatic representation of human life as may excite mirth, they have embarrassed their definition with the means by which the comic writers attain their end, without considering that the various methods of […]
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what’s funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
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.
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense of the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires the authority in the art of the comic.
Confront a man in his office with a nuclear alarm, and you have a documentary. If the news reaches him in his living room, you have a drama. If it catches him in the lavatory, the result is a comedy.
Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
In all comedy there is something regressive that takes us back to the world of play that we first knew as children.
