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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Matt LeBlanc 
David R. Ellis 
Seth MacFarlane 
Cillian Murphy 
Cuba Gooding, Jr. 
Matt Stone 
Dennis Miller 
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There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.
Thomas Lennon 
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel De Cervantes
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People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
Kenneth Williams
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Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
Dick Cavett
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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.
Theodore Bikel
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It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
Trey Parker
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I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.
Khandi Alexander
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Dick Cavett
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