Top Comedy Quotes
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Tommy Chong
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
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Kato Kaelin 
Will Arnett 
Kaley Cuoco 
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Lisa Kudrow 
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The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Tommy Chong 
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Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey
69% of people like this quote
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
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While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Tim Allen
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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
Maureen O'Hara
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The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
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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.
Garrison Keillor
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If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.
Richard Russo
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