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My routines
come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group
therapy.
-- Joan Rivers
1933-, American Comedian,
Talk Show Host, Actress
There is not
one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
-- Joan Rivers
1933-, American Comedian,
Talk Show Host, Actress
In comedy,
reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the
tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension
with life appears.
-- Constance Rourke
1885-1941, American Author
And I did
laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a
worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
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Though it make
the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.
-- William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet,
Playwright, Actor
The only rules
comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only
limitations those of libel.
-- James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist,
Illustrator
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
1894-1961, American Humorist,
Illustrator
When humor can
be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but
when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same
time, it's just wonderful.
-- FrançOis Truffaut
1932-1984, French Film Critic
and Director
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