1,680 Quotes About Comedy






  • Author Donald Barthelme
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    He is, professionally, an arbiter of comedy. “A sort of drama critic?” “More what you would term an umpire. The members of the audience are given a set of rules and the rules constitute the comedy.

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  • Author Rainn Wilson
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    Everyone who is at all successful in comedy has had a secret comedy dork life in their adolescence. Whether it's sitcoms or stand-ups, wallowing in the muck of comedy and repeating classic routines and jokes through your teenage years is what gives every aspiring comic or comedic actor the seed of their absurdist imagination that later takes flower.

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  • Author Douglas Adams
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    I wasn't disturbed so much by the "O Lord, we thank Thee for the blessing of Thy day," but "We commend our lives into Thy hands. O lord" is frankly not the sort of thing you want to hear from a pilot as his hand is reaching for the throttle.

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  • Author Colin Jost
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    Tiger Woods said that he’s always nervous before a big tournament because if you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care. I’m still at least a little nervous before every set I do, even a ten-minute spot at a bar downtown for twenty-five people and zero money. Because I care very deeply about doing a set I’m proud of and that I stand behind.

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