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Definition of Comic

Comic

Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.

Causing mirth; ludicrous.

A comedian.

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Comic Quotations

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
Joan Rivers

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
Christopher Walken

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
Henri Bergson

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.
Megan Fox

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
Dick Gregory

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
Sarah Silverman

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
Jim Carrey

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

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
Martin Sheen

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
Twyla Tharp

I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.
John Cleese

As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
Loni Anderson

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
Geoffrey Rush

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.
Roy Lichtenstein

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
Patricia Heaton

Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
Wanda Sykes

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Harvey Pekar

I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
Harvey Pekar

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.
Harvey Pekar

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
Harvey Pekar

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
Harvey Pekar

I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
Harvey Pekar

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Harvey Pekar

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Comic Translations

comic in Danish is sjov
comic in Dutch is grappig, koddig, komisch, moppig
comic in French is comique
comic in German is komisch
comic in Italian is comico

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