French Comedy Quotes

I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.

I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a sort of realism that we don't necessarily often do ourselves.

The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'

A lot of French comedy is satire.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

If it were not for the government, we would have nothing to laugh at in France.

Eventually I was saying to myself, maybe it would be better, instead of trying to become an American comedian in France, to mix those two styles and those two genres. Because of course it's good to be efficient and sharp, and to have a joke every twenty seconds, but it can be a little cold and dry.

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms.

'School for Wives' is Moliere's first step toward grand comedy, but he still has one foot in commedia.