Posted on 08/08/2016 3:24:30 PM PDT by gigster
Who do you think is historically our greatest actor and comedian?
I couldn’t think of anyone when I first read this thread. Now, I’m seeing so many that I love. Thank you, gigster! So many wonderful memories. :)
I ‘d like to see the demographics of Free Republic to see who I’m communicating with. I will soon be 58 years old.
I love comedy and I agree with almost every response here, however to quote Voltaire:
“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
One more fav of mine is Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby. Arsenic and Old Lace too.
You can have one from corumn A, and one from corumn B, but NOBODY can have just one Rays potato chip. Are Chinese tortchah, mmm, hmm, hmm...
As will I. Noting your screen name, are you a musician?
Joe E. Brown. Hilarious. Earthworm Tractor is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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No Yahooing over this way. I’m in here or on youtube. No PMSNBC or other marxist web sites.
“I’ve a good mind to join a club and hit you over the head with it”
Groucho Marx
He was hilarious on SNL. Samurai skits.
Will Rogers was also our best political commentator to date.
Mel Brooks, hands down.
Not just funny, but could also heal the nation. I think if people were forced to watch “Blazing Saddles” annually, and actually WATCH the movie, we’d have 1/100th the racial and ethnic tension we have today.
Brooks is not just a comic genius, he’s a socio-political genius.
Mae West
Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?
Mary Jane West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress and playwright, most commonly known as “Mae” West.
When I’m good, I’m very good. When I’m bad, I’m better.
When you got the personality, you don’t need the nudity.
Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
Response to an exclamation, “Goodness! What lovely diamonds!” in Night After Night (1932). She later used Goodness had nothing to do with it as the title of her autobiography (1953).
Why don’t you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I’ll tell your fortune.
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Beulah, Peel me a grape.
I’m No Angel (1933)
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.
I’m No Angel (1933)
When I’m good, I’m very good. When I’m bad, I’m better.
I’m No Angel (1933)
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Interview in Life magazine (18 April 1969)
It’s not the men in your life that matters, it’s the life in your men.
I’m No Angel (1933)
Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.
Klondike Annie (1936) Sometimes quoted as: “When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.”’
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
Belle of the Nineties
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
She Done Him Wrong
One and one is two; two and two is four; and “five will get you ten” if you work it right!
My Little Chickadee
I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time.
Myra Breckinridge
To a young actor: How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let’s talk about the seven inches!
Myra Breckinridge
I’m the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night
Sextette
To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said — ‘The British are coming’. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film.
Sextette
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
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When you got the personality, you don’t need the nudity.
Quoted in “For Women, Monologues They Haven’t Heard” by Susan Pomerance, Dramaline Publications (1985)
Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
#149 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.
#684 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.
#685 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
#832 in The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (2006) by Robert Byrne
I’ve always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
Person-to-Person interview (CBS) with Charles Collingwood, September 1959
How he got into my pajamas I will never know. Groucho Marx.
Don Knotts
I’d have to say Martin, as well. Just for the Rental Counter scene in “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.”
But if I had to say what was the best single comedic acting performance in a film, to me, hands down, it’s James Cagney in “One, Two, Three”.
Jack Benny played a mean (shudder!) violin.
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