Comedy Quotes from the Movies

Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed

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by Larry Langman and Paul Gold

Type: Dictionaries
Subject: On Films > Lines and dialogues
Keywords: quotes, comedy, american cinema, humor, dialogues
Publishing date: 2001
1st publishing: 1994
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Language: English

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Paperback • 416 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-7864-1110-4
978-0-7864-1110-8

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Clever repartee, double entendres, punch lines and many other variations of humor have been a staple of movie dialogue since the advent of talkies. Collected here are over 4,000 of the best comedic lines from the movies. The compilers of this book have tried to bring together some of the funniest, wittiest and most outrageous snatches of dialogue on film over a sixty year time period.

For each entry the authors set the quotation in context, provide the name of the actor or actress, the name of the movie and the year of release. The quotations are arranged by a broad range of categories, such as politics, food and eating, gambling, and many others. A title index and a name index follow the body of the book..

About the authors:
Flushing, New York’s Larry Langman has been an instructor of film history and English for over twenty years. He has written more than a dozen books on film.
Paul Gold, a mathematics teacher, lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Press Reviews:
"Covers lines from over sixty years of cinematic humor"—The Mountain Times.

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