Comedy Quotes

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately" "Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it" "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." "I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it." "I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive." "A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book" "There are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to 7. They must really be bad. They’d have to be outrageous to be separated from a group that large" "Being a comedian is the closest thing to being a rock star." "We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look" "A hard man is good to find." "The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it." "I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes" "A joke is a very serious thing" "There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."