There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

quote by Val Guest
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Islet The Dachs

Our Islet out of Helgoland, dismissed
From his quaint tenement, quits hates and loves.
There lived with us a wagging humourist
In that hound's arch dwarf-legged on boxing-gloves.

poem by George Meredith
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Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

quote by John Lithgow
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Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

quote by Brittany Daniel
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The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

quote by Mark Twain
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

poem by Robert Frost
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

quote by Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool.

quote by Sylvia Fine Kaye
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot

classic quote by Charlie Chaplin
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There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

quote by Dick Cavett
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Growing Pains

Behold the undergraduate
A most amusing fellow
In all his jesting up-to-date
His sense of humor is so great,
His modern wit so mellow,
That no quip serves him lest it be
Rich in originality.

Assured of overwhelming odds,
Seizing the freshmen's persons,
Indelibly he daubs these clods,
To waken mirth in men and gods.
(Saving a few McPhersons
And other members of their race
Who have of humor, not a trace.)

The softier sort of joke that serves
Dull age - the quaint or quizzical
Gains his contempt, as it deserves;
Mere wordy wit gets on his nerves;

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poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

quote by George Mikes
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Humor is healing.

quote by Brad Garrett
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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

quote by Frank Muir
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

quote by Malcolm Muggeridge
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What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

quote by Steve Martin
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The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

quote by Elmer Wheeler
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It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.

quote by Wanda Sykes
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It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

quote by Keenen Ivory Wayans
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