Quotes of: Comedy-shows Keyword

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.

William Devane

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

William Safire

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

William Shenstone

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

The Divine Comedy

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

Bo Burnham

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

Adam Carolla

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

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.

Agee on Film, Vol. 1: Essays and Reviews

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Poetics

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

Bill Hicks

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience.

Burt Ward

If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy. I felt that it was a drama with comedic elements and comedic parts to it.

Malcolm D. Lee

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

As a comedy writer, I'm always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke.

Nicholas Stoller

Seeing the energy of 'SNL' made me want to be a part of it. If that was a job, I thought, that was the job I wanted. That was my plan. Comedy.

Olivia Wilde

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own.

Paul Feig

Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.

Paul Haggis

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

Penn Jillette