#comedy

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The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.


Dawn Powell


#human-nature #humanity #repetition #tragedy #age

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.


Jamie Farr


#comedy #did #enjoyed #i #sketch

I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.


Jim C. Hines


#fantasy #tome #age

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

That voice that cries out doesn't have to be a weakling's does it?


John Osborne


#anger #comedy #cry #family-drama #outcry

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.


Mel Smith


#business #centre #comedy #cow #end

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.


Steve Martin


#humor #art

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 take you away, man. You can't.


Lenny Bruce


#comedy #laughter #art

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.


Craig Ferguson


#audience #comedy #art

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art. (video)


Stephen Fry


#books #comedy #fitzgerald #humour #joyce