Don Rickles Quotes

I think Georges Feydeau said comedy is just tragedy speeded up.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Most of the humor comes from how outrageous the situations and circumstances are.

Playing on stereotypes was meant to be humorous. If it doesn't tickle you in certain spots, it's not going to be funny. Falling down the stairs is a seriously dangerous thing, but watching it is HILARIOUS!

Good comedy makes you laugh, and bad comedy makes people you hate laugh.

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

But the main thing I don't want to be is un-funny. That's really the mandate. Just whatever we're doing, make it as funny as we can possibly make it. And believe me, if the show starts going down, we'll introduce a baby. We'll do everything that they did on 'Family Ties.' I'm not afraid of that.

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.

Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.

I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.