"I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material."

Comedy,

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material."

Exlpore more Comedy quotes

"Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Comedy, Humor, Laughter, Health

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Comedy, Humor, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Comedy, Sarcastic, Tragedy

"She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Comedy, Humor, Appearance, Absurdity, Description

"Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes."

Aries Spears, American Actor

Comedy, Jokes

"We didn't know anything about comedy duos - Abbot and Costello, Martin and Lewis - we didn't know anything about that. Kim Fields showed us a tape of Martin and Lewis and their old shows and they come through the curtain so we started doing research on them."

Kel Mitchell, American Actor

Comedy, Martin, Old, Research

"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."

Alan Thicke, Canadian Actor

Comedy,

"I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way."

Kevin Eubanks, American Musician

Comedy,

"To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy."

Elayne Boosler, American Comedian

Comedy, Key, Silence

"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."

Alan Bates, British Actor

Comedy,

Explore more quotes by Kate Clinton

"Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it."

Humor

"What goes for sex goes double for politics."

Politics

"A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid."

Friendship

"I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me."

Night

"Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine."

Woman

"They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India."

Woman

"I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times."

Woman

"I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ."

People

"Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one."

Woman

"As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential running mate. And I find it continually appalling that it would be a radical thing to have a woman on the ticket."

Radical