All Quotes

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
‐‐ James Thurber

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.
‐‐ Grant Bowler

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
‐‐ John Michael Higgins

Comedy helped me out in my teenage years. It saw me through puberty and helped me to deal with dating.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye for retail, either.
‐‐ Gilbert Gottfried

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.
‐‐ David R. Ellis

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.
‐‐ Gad Elmaleh

Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
‐‐ Eddie McClintock

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
‐‐ Eddie Izzard

Comedy is a group activity, a verbal orgy.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.
‐‐ Vir Das

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
‐‐ Alan King

Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.
‐‐ Dave Coulier

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.
‐‐ Stephen Mangan

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.
‐‐ Chuck Jones

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
‐‐ Laura Linney

Comedy is acting out optimism.
‐‐ Robin Williams

Comedy is actually very macho driven.
‐‐ Scott Thompson

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.
‐‐ Judy Gold

Comedy is all about the pause.
‐‐ Ron White

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
‐‐ Alan King

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
‐‐ Christopher Fry

Comedy is basically self-deprecation.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
‐‐ Madeline Kahn

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.
‐‐ Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
‐‐ Jason Robert Brown

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

Comedy is great because there's no overhead.
‐‐ Ron White

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
‐‐ Jeff Daniels

Comedy is important! When you're having a stressful day, and you come home, you want to watch something that makes you laugh.
‐‐ Michael Cudlitz

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.
‐‐ Bill Hader

Comedy is inherently subversive because it turns the normal reality on its head. The art form is all about these questions and contradictions. In comedy, we're dealing with language that we all understand, but words can have a dozen other things around them that alter or affect meaning.
‐‐ Paul Provenza

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
‐‐ Natasha Leggero

Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.
‐‐ Robert Greenblatt

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
‐‐ Jonathan Krisel

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.
‐‐ Jennifer Carpenter

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
‐‐ Christopher Guest

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.
‐‐ Jenna Elfman

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
‐‐ Vivien Leigh

Comedy is music.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper