Tony Hancock Quotes

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Good comedy is ageless.

The first thing I ever got my hands on was Andy Griffith's 'What It Was, Was Football.' I was fascinated with the fact that every syllable made it funny, and I would laugh even though I didn't know what any of it meant.

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Unintentional comedy is comedy just the same.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

There is a universality to comedy.

I like really stupid comedies.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

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.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

In terms of pure comedic value, 'Tootsie' is brilliant.

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track.

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.

Comedy is a weird thing.

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly guy being funny and stupid.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

The secret of comedy is enjoying it. If you're not laughing, it's not going to be funny.

Comedy is very effortless.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.