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| En komiker är en som gör roliga saker. En stor komiker är en som gör saker roliga. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| Komedi är bara ett kul sätt att vara seriös. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Komedi är en flykt, inte från sanningen men från förtvivlan; en trång flyktväg in till tron. | Christopher Fry (1907-2005) |
| Komedi är tragik plus tiden. | Carol Burnett (1933-) |
| Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind | Gilbert Seldes |
| The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness. | Harry Levin (1912-) |
| I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades. | Richard Eder |
| In all comedy there is something regressive that takes us back to the world of play that we first knew as children | Roger Pothemus |
| Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. | Sid Caesar (1922-) |
| The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke | Martin (Ramon Estevez) Sheen (1945-) |
| Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework | Bill Cosby (1937-) |
| Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. | Christopher Fry (1907-2005) |
| Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. | Christopher Fry (1907-2005) |
| Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke | Martin (Ramon Estevez) Sheen (1945-) |
| God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. | Molière (1622-1673) |
| Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind | Gilbert Seldes |
| Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. | Sid Caesar (1922-) |
| In all comedy there is something regressive that takes us back to the world of play that we first knew as children | Roger Pothemus |
| Nazis are for the New Age concern | Bill Hicks (1961-1994) |
| Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Comedy is tragedy plus time. | Carol Burnett (1933-) |
| My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. | Russell Baker (1925-) |
| All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. | Gilda Radner (1946-1989) |
| I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest." | Janeane Garofalo (1964-) |
| Publikum kan godt lide "Den langsomme Tænker". | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| You believe the world's 12 thousand years old? "That's right." Okay I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready? "Uh huh." Dinosaurs. You know the world's 12 thousand years old and dinosaurs existed, they existed in that time, you'd think it would have been mentioned in the fucking Bible at some point. "And lo Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus...with a splinter in his paw. And O the disciples did run a shriekin': 'What a big fucking lizard, Lord!' But Jesus was unafraid and he took the splinter from the brontosaurus's paw and the big lizard became his friend. | Bill Hicks (1961-1994) |
| I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets!' | Bill Hicks (1961-1994) |
| You know we armed Iraq. I wondered about that too, you know during the Persian Gulf war those intelligence reports would come out: "Iraq: incredible weapons - incredible weapons." How do you know that? "Uh, well...we looked at the receipts." | Bill Hicks (1961-1994) |
| Dinosaur fossils? God put those there to test our faith." Thank God I'm strapped in right now here man. I think God put you here to test my faith, Dude. You believe that? "Uh huh." Does that trouble anyone here? The idea that God.. might be...fuckin' with our heads? I have trouble sleeping with that knowledge. Some prankster God running around: "Hu hu ho. We will see who believes in me now, ha HA. | Bill Hicks (1961-1994) |
| Does anyone here work in advertising or marketing? Well if you do, when you get home take a gun shoot yourself. No bullshit, I'm not joking just do it. I'm just sowing seeds, one day they may take root. | Bill Hicks (1961-1994) |
| I was watching Ashlee Simpson on Jay's show last night... She was really singing, and I was saying, 'Bring back the lip synch.' ...And it struck me that Ashlee Simpson is a lot like George Bush-because she wouldn't even really be in the big leagues if it wasn't for family connections, and she's in way over her head. And she doesn't know what to do. And she blamed her band. | Bill Maher (1956-) |
| They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All your writers did the same thing. Once that started, it took years to ever get anybody even to touch that old type of material again | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| I'm so sorry I fell down. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| Life is too serious to do farce comedy. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat. | Buster Keaton (1895-1966) |
| Going to the bathroom is not a spectator sport. | Doug Wilson |
| [Mock singing] “And shall my sword sleep in my hand…” [Speaking] “NOT a good idea, you’re gonna roll over and cut your bits off.” | Eddie Izzard (1962-) |
| It all bottomed out with the Renaissance Period. Ren-ais-sance. That’s Renaissance, FRENCH for ‘re-birth’. Re-nais-sance. And that’s why most of the Renaissance happened slap bang in the middle of Fr…Italy. | Eddie Izzard (1962-) |
| When will you Australians learn? In America we stopped using corporal punishment, and things have never been better! The streets are safe. Old people strut confidently through the darkest alleys. And the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer-programming abilities. So, like us, let your children run wild and free, because, as the old saying goes, "let your children run wild and free". | Homer Simpson (1955-) |
| Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!" | Johnny Carson (1925-2005) |
| The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.' | Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005) |
| Our comedies are not to be laughed at. | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |