199 Quotes About Comic

The comic is about one dog, one baby, and one house, I feel like my parents!

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes.

I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. He provided comic relief but was also a real person doing things that were very important to the show.

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

I have a comic character - my sister said that I'm the victim of every joke I tell.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.