comedy and comedians quotes

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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and c ...
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the de ...
I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the
House of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of ...
A tragic poet will never think of grouping around the chief character in his play secondary characters to serve as simplified copi ...
Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
No one attaches a transcendent meaning to the "errors" of comedy, much less of farce. Mistaken identities, misunderstandings about ...
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 audien ...
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 t ...
All tragedies are finished by a death,
All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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