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Comedy Quotes

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– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2. Polonius, who likes to hear himself talk, announces the arrival of the troupe of traveling actors in this comical way.

I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I’m a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

– Hugh Grant

Aditi is a comedy superstar over in India. She’s only one of three female English-speaking comedians in India.

– Hasan Minhaj

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can’t layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it’s more difficult than drama – you don’t have so many tricks.

– Grant Bowler

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it’s a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

– Glenn Howerton

A lot of romantic comedies are just light romantic dramas, or the comedy comes off second-best.

– Graeme Simsion

I’m lucky. I’ve worked with extremely talented women who won’t sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better.

– Heather Burns

The great thing about comedy is that the longer you’ve been alive, the more you have to talk about and the better you get. I’ve got some miles and some road savviness that some other guys don’t have.

– Greg Behrendt

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

– Hannah Gadsby

Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it’s a way of dealing with pain.

– Hugh Grant

I’m not a big fan of comedy roasts because most of the time I find them to be really mean, but once in a while, you’ll hear something perfectly worded and well-crafted.

– Greg Behrendt

I can’t imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.

– Harold Ramis

I’m not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

– H. Jon Benjamin

I am into comedy.

– Heidi Klum

You just make sure you don’t screw it up. It’s going to work as long as you don’t mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

– Harold Ramis

I’ve done romantic comedy, and I don’t get to flex that muscle often.

– Hill Harper

My comedy isn’t going to solve problems; I’m not that deep.

– Gary Owens

You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor.

– Hank Azaria

I remember ‘Def Comedy Jam’ being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, ‘I want to do that.’

– Hannibal Buress

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called ‘The Elevator.’

– Heather Morris

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor – light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

– Hugh Grant

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

– Horace Walpole

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

– Ian Hislop

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.

– Harry Shearer

Maybe 10 times a year I’ll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.

– Gabe Kaplan

Comedy is basically self-deprecation.

– Hannibal Buress

You’re at the top of your game if you do comedy.

– Hector Elizondo

There’s all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy’s one of those few things where you can discuss those things.

– Hasan Minhaj

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

– Henry Rollins

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

– Hector Elizondo

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