Great Comedy quotes:

Send

Great comedy calls large matters into question. -- Penelope Gilliatt
It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy. -- Vince Vaughn
Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer. -- Bill Hicks
If a great comedy landed on my doorstep, I would find it hard to say no. -- Eric Bana
I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances. -- Mel Brooks
There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place. -- Aries Spears
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were. -- Leonard Maltin
There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious. -- Sarah Silverman
I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered together - 'Taxi' and 'Cheers,' 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends.' -- Matthew Perry
There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies. -- George Ratliff
One of the things I can do is to try to put myself in different kinds of movies and that kind of subtly changes my work. By the time my obituary is written, I want there to be a great western and a great comedy. -- Ethan Hawke
Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing. -- Martin Samuel
Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. -- Mo Rocca
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power. -- Michael Moore
A great piece of comedy is a verbal magic trick. -- Chris Bliss
Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious. -- Clifton Collins, Jr.
The kick of comedy is to think quickly. It's a great kick. -- Joey Bishop
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course. -- Malcolm McDowell
I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great. -- Roland Emmerich
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain. -- Brian Dunkleman
Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. -- Eddie Izzard
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy. -- Steve Coogan
It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy. -- Corbin Bernsen
The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else. -- Andy Dick
Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic. -- Dave Coulier
If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy. -- Andy Serkis
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors. -- Tom Stoppard
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not. -- John Hodgman
I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better. -- James Bobin
As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom. -- Adam McKay
To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me. -- Joe Rogan
[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy. -- Keith Carradine
he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets. -- Brian Henson
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. -- Colin Firth
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them. -- Trevor Noah
I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is. -- Amy Poehler
Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible fan. -- Paul Lieberstein
I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy. -- Vir Das
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered. -- John Landis
I'm sort of known in the comedy community as 'Smooth Sailing,' just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn. -- Jon Glaser
One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem. -- Michael Caine
I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about. -- Jackie Mason
The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage. -- Joe Rogan
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. -- Marc Maron
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief. -- Elbert Hubbard
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything. -- Rachel Nichols
What is there to say about ChUC other than it's a comedy show done the right way in the right space. Fantastic comics, welcoming audience. Always great. -- Kyle Kinane
To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself. -- Griffin Dunne
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years. -- Scott Aukerman
It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint. -- Will Arnett
The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind. -- Nancy Travis
I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever you want and it just happens. -- Adam McKay
'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind. -- Nancy Travis
I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality. -- Serena Williams
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. -- Roger Ebert
A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld. -- Edward Hirsch
I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. -- Brendan Coyle
Being around Lily Tomlin has been great, how she treats people, how she handles herself, how she goes about interpreting her character or deciding how the comedy should work. -- Baron Vaughn
I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country. -- Kate Bush

Send