Quotes about Comedy

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

My daughter made me a Jerry Springer-watching kit, with crackers, Cheez Whiz, polyester stretch pants and a T-shirt with two fat women fighting over a skinny guy.

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

When someone who is known as a comedic actor goes to drama, it often doesn't work out, because they really just chose wrong, I think - or maybe they're just not good actors, I don't know.

So progressives have been working hard to come up with lies that can be passed off as facts. Progressives have a whole cultural contingent—Hollywood, the mainline media, the elite universities, even professional comedians—to peddle their propaganda. From the television show Madame Secretary to the front page of the New York Times to nightly quips by Stephen Colbert, the progressive bilge comes at us continually and relentlessly.

If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels it is a victory to him who believes.