Following is our list of the most famous slapstick quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational slapstick quotes. Hopefully, these slapstick quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your slapstick knowledge!
A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. — John Ratzenberger
Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it. — Maureen O'Hara
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor. — Anjelica Huston
Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. — Tina Weymouth
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. — Imogene Coca
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck
Comedy itself is based upon very old principles of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation. — Jack Benny
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. — Edward W. Howe
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing. — William James
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. — Dawn Powell
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. — Steve Martin
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. — Peter Ustinov
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. — Barbara Stanwyck
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. — Max Eastman
The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents. — Barney Frank
Short Slapstick Quotes
Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency. — Kurt Vonnegut
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. — Kurt Vonnegut
I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh. — Kenneth Branagh
I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers. — Jean-Luc Godard
If you can do no good, at least do no harm. — Kurt Vonnegut
My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat. — Noel Fielding
Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The ageing process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous. — John Mortimer
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all. — T. E. D. Klein
I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, "Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency." — Kurt Vonnegut
I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor. — Victoria Chang
At times we were criticized for doing too much slapstick. I don't believe in mild comedy, and neither does Lucy. — Desi Arnaz
I didn't understand Southland Tales script at all! Is there a single word to describe it? Cacophony? It's celebrity meets pornography meets politics - it's unlike anything I've ever seen in my life. And slapstick humor, communism; I mean, what doesn't it have? It's crazy. I didn't go to Cannes, but I guess the first cut was three and a half hours or something? — Beth Grant
When you're doing comedy, you're not trying to be funny. I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously. I think when people are winking, it becomes slapstick, it becomes something else. — Rachel Weisz
I think that fact alone levels everything. Slapstick amazes me, the folly of humans today, the Ponzi schemes, giving birth to eight babies at once, it's amazing... And I know, it's horrible to have your money stolen and all that, but those are amazing stories. — Laurel Nakadate
People still talk about a British sense of humour, or French slapstick or how the Germans have no sense of humour - and it's just rubbish. I do strongly feel that we are all the bloody same. — Eddie Izzard
I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine. — Lance Henriksen
I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just this crazy and get naked and run through the thing screaming. That's just not my style; my style is drama or - I'm not slapstick. — Mekhi Phifer
I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost. — Bill Watterson
I like broad comedy. If I had an idea tomorrow for a film that was all slapstick and broad comedy, and it was an idea that interested me, I would not hesitate to do it because I enjoy watching these kinds of film. — Woody Allen
The music of Gavin Bryars falls under no category. It is mongrel, full of sensuality and wit and is deeply moving. He is one of the few composers who can put slapstick and primal emotion alongside each other. He allows you to witness new wonders in the sounds around you by approaching them from a completely new angle. With a third ear maybe. — Michael Ondaatje
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons, this mode of reception gives the masses no means of organizing and regulating their response. Thus, the same public which reacts progressively to a slapstick comedy inevitably displays a backward attitude toward Surrealism. — Walter Benjamin
Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit. — Jaimie Alexander
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous. — Kurt Vonnegut
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