Comedy And Comedians

(331 votes)   Pobody's Nerfect!

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(300 votes)   Pobody's Nerfect!

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(295 votes)   Pobody's Nerfect!

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(154 votes)   The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(139 votes)   Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(133 votes)   The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(120 votes)   We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

Graham Greene
1904-1991, British Novelist

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(103 votes)   And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(99 votes)   Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Paul Goodman
1911-1972, American Author, Poet, Critic

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(98 votes)   Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce
1925-1966, American Comedian

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(97 votes)   Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(89 votes)   The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(84 votes)   I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Paul Reiser
1957-, American Actor, Comedian, Writer

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(76 votes)   I was only ever in love once, and it had the weirdest effect on me. It turned a childish idiotic moron like me, into an even more childish more idiotic moron.

Danny McCrossan
Irish Comedian

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(73 votes)   I’ve always been way too shy to properly express my sexual needs, well, apart from over the phone, with some woman I don’t know, for £1.50 a minute.

Danny McCrossan
Irish Comedian

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