1,680 Quotes About Comedy

  • Author Colin Jost
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    And the faster you find friends who challenge you and sometimes make you jealous, the faster you'll grow as a comedian.

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  • Author Salma Khadra Jayyusi
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    Because the comic hero deviates, by the nature of his role, from social norms, he leads an alienated existence: he is slapped, reviled, insulted, treated as an outcast, disinherited. Yet he bears everything with the rigid patience of the wise Fool, whose foolery is in his passport to safety.(In her introduction to Habiby's Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist)

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