Comedy Quotes

"The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades."
-Richard Eder

"I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything."
-Jerry Seinfeld

"No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat."
-Buster Keaton

"Life is too serious to do farce comedy."
-Buster Keaton

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

"Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end."
-Sid Caesar

"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
-Buster Keaton

"I'm so sorry I fell down."
-Buster Keaton

"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
-Benito Mussolini

"It's a comedy. A great one."
-Katie Simons

"Rock 'n' roll of comedy."
-Andrew Dice Clay

"I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college."
-Ana Gasteyer

"Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred."
-Pico Iyer

"Well their performance was really brilliant. They should get an Oscar for best performance in a comedy."
-Laura Pollan

"It's a comedy, there's not a great message behind it."
-Isla Fisher

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."
-Peter Ustinov

"There's a lot of comedy in this as well."
-Bruce Sevy

"I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better."
-Michael Grade

"Good taste is the enemy of comedy."
-Mel Brooks

"Comedy is acting out optimism."
-Robin Williams

"I was hoping that the appeal of the show would stretch beyond the anglophile and comedy-obsessed."
-Matt Lucas

"It's like this all the time. When we play, it's a comedy act with music."
-Scott Crawford

"In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment."
-Christopher Fry

"I think we will probably be a comedy."
-Marta Kauffman

"Comedy just seemed like the way in."
-Orlando Jones

"I like doing the action and the romantic comedy stuff."
-Mark Ruffalo

"One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria."
-V. S. Naipaul