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Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays.

After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

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

When I got the job, I was sure that I wasn't going to get the job because Tom Cruise almost got the job.

Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.

Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.