#comedy

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#acting #comedy #express #feelings #fit

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#being #comedy #could #done #goal

The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#black #black comedy #comedy #day #full

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow. ↗

— Val Guest

#break #call #comedy #got #i

Boyfriend?” He was smiling slightly. Karl rolled his eyes. “Not if you’re going to be like that about it.” “What, happy?” Aiden teased. “You supposed to want your boyfriend to be happy, you know.” “I want you to be happy,” Karl muttered. “I just don’t want you to be a smug little bastard about it. ↗

— Jane Davitt

#romantic-comedy #change

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#emotions #life #perspective #thinking #tragedy

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#because #behind #comedy #craft #frank

The only options I have are a four fingered shuffle and an aging vibrator whose batteries, the last time I looked, were leaking a sticky liquid. I long to do the same.” Time Was by Paul Adams ↗

— Paul Adams

#romantic-comedy #age

Lord, what fools these mortals be! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#elizabethan #robin-goodfellow #dreams

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#because #comedy #doing #even #got