"Most modern comedy is crap."

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"I got everybody on my side through comedy."

Ruth Buzzi, American Actress

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"Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart."

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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

Carl Reiner, American Actor

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"I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Comedy, Humor, Accident, Irony, Reading

"When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that."

Jim Dale, British Musician

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"Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear."

James Thurber, American Comedian

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"I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable."

Rick Moody, American Novelist

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"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing."

Rowan Atkinson, English Comedian

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"I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag."

People

"From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour."

People

"It's definitely time to stop. We're getting too old. We both realised that the show wasn't as engaging as it used to be. We were starting to look a bit ridiculous."

Time

"I'm waiting for the time when I fail - because we all fail - and I'm ready, I'll take up carpentry."

Time

"We have never been strictly political, only strictly funny."

Funny

"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."

Comedians

"People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh."

People

"A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image."

People

"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."

Comedy

"We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look."

Girls