Comedy
A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.
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Comedy Quotations
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
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
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
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
Mel Brooks
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks
Comedy is acting out optimism.
Robin Williams
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
Larry David
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
Larry David
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber
Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.
Gilda Radner
As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
Adam Sandler
The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
Adam Sandler
It's fun to do a comedy and hook people in and then hoodwink them into watching a serious movie. I like to lead in with the comedy and then hit them over the head with a drama.
Reese Witherspoon
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
Maureen O'Hara
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
Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
Aziz Ansari
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Comedy Translations
comedy in Afrikaans is komedie
comedy in Dutch is blijspel, komedie
comedy in Spanish is comedia
comedy in Swedish is komedi, lustspel
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