Comedy and Comedians Quotes

15 quotations about Comedy and Comedians
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Woody Allen · Comedy and Comedians
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Erma Bombeck · Comedy and Comedians
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter · Comedy and Comedians
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin · Comedy and Comedians
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin · Comedy and Comedians
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
Lita Grey Chaplin · Comedy and Comedians
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
Marty Feldman · Comedy and Comedians
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry · Comedy and Comedians
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway · Comedy and Comedians
Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
Warren Mitchell · Comedy and Comedians
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
George Jean Nathan · Comedy and Comedians
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.
Joan Rivers · Comedy and Comedians
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers · Comedy and Comedians
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
William Shakespeare · Comedy and Comedians
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber · Comedy and Comedians

Authors on Comedy and Comedians

Woody Allen Erma Bombeck Angela Carter Charlie Chaplin Lita Grey Chaplin Marty Feldman Christopher Fry Ernest Hemingway Warren Mitchell George Jean Nathan Joan Rivers William Shakespeare James Thurber