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Quotes about comedy and comedians
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. (Walliams David)
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. (Walliams David)
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. (Walliams David)
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Walliams David)
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Walliams David)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. (Walliams David)
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. (Walliams David)
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him. (Walliams David)
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. (Walliams David)
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. (Walliams David)
Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. (Walliams David)
Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. (Walliams David)
Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred. (Walliams David)
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. (Walliams David)
I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists. (Walliams David)
My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy. (Walliams David)
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. (Walliams David)
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. (Walliams David)
Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve. (Walliams David)
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. (Walliams David)
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. (Walliams David)
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing. (Walliams David)
Only one that's lasted 34 years, six months and five days. A lot of comedians are really angry people, and they deal with rage through being acerbic, subversive, in a funny way. It's just a way to sublimate what could be a lot uglier. (Walliams David)
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. (Walliams David)
Wedding Singer' taught us we shouldn't be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy. (Walliams David)
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