#comedy

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ↗

— Chuck Jones

#because #comedy #critic #dramatic #exacting

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy. ↗

— Davy Jones

#fifty #fifty percent #i #killer #percent

Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy. ↗

— Lisa Kudrow

#comedy #dumb #hair #red #red hair

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#becoming #being #comedians #comedy #doing

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#carry #character #comedy #done #earlier

Especially when you deal with comedy, you have got to be really honest because it's the honesty and the spontaneity that causes people to chuckle, that catches people. ↗

— Austin Peck

#catches #causes #chuckle #comedy #deal

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. ↗

— Parker Posey

#casting #comedy #deep #depression #flip

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#called #club #comedy #comics #connection

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#comedy #days #early #get #those