Quotes about "Humor & Comedy"

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. ”

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed. ”

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing. ”

Banjos are funny instruments. They can get pretty irritating. ”

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years. ”

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn't really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same. ”

The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral. ”

Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way. ”

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. ”

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same. ”