Andrew Dice Clay
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
Marty Feldman
Comedy is relief.
Sid Caesar
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophanes
Comedy is a mysterious and unexplored art.
Robert Klein
Comedy is essentially a miracle. I believe I’m as important to society as a doctor; to create laughter creates magic. These days nothing is more important.
Kathleen Freeman
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world…often a deeply felt rage.
Samuel S. Janus
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
George Carlin
Stand-up comedy is the art of letting an audience laugh
by simulating spontaneity.
Lee Glickstein
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair;
a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry
Comedy is in my blood. Frankly, I wish it were in my act!
Rodney Dangerfield
They don’t seem to write…comedy anymore—just a series of gags.
Barbara Stanwyck
In all comedy there is something regressive that takes us back to the world of play that we first knew as children.
Roger Polhemus
Comedy is mentally pulling the rug out from under each person in your audience. But first, you have to get them to stand on it. You have to fool them, because if they see you preparing to tug on the rug, they’ll move.
Gene Perret
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what’s funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
Madeline Kahn
A comedian is not a man who says funny things.
A comedian is one who says things funny.
Ed Wynn
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
Walter Kerr
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler
Science opens to us the book of nature;
comedy, the book of human nature.
Anonymous
What kills comedy is being too close to something,
being too narrow-minded.
Gene Perret
You’ve got to realize when all goes well and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It’s when somebody steps on the bride’s train or belches during the ceremony, then you’ve got comedy.
Phyllis Diller
I call my stuff three-day comedy. First they laugh, and three days later they go, “Oh, God, this is what she was talking about.”
Roseanne Barr
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
The only way to get a serious message across is through comedy.
Woody Harrelson
Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.
Malcolm L. Kushner
Comedy is the main weapon we have against “The Horror.” With it we can strike a blow at death itself. Or, at least, poke a hole in the pretentious notion that there is something dignified about it.
John Callahan
Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.
Harvey Mindess
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.
Harry Levin
To tragedy belongs guilt and judgment;
to comedy, love and grace.
Conrad Hyers
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Harvey Cox
Comedy is never so comic as when the comedian teeters on the edge of death.
Robert Payne
Dying is easy, comedy is hard.
Edmund Gwenn
You can make comedy about anything—death, war, cancer. You just have to be twice as good.
Robert Klein
Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is
a matter of perspective.
Arnold Beisser
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up,
but a comedy in a longshot.
Charlie Chaplin
I enjoy life, and I think that’s important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it’s over in a minute, and you’ve just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.
Jerry Hall
en●joy vt to experience with joy; relish; gain pleasure from
en●joy●ment n the state or act of enjoying
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
I’m all for rational enjoyment and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
P. G. Wodehouse
If you’re going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
Leo Rosten
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this: Was it done with enjoyment—was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Life is like a roller coaster; live it, be happy, enjoy life.
Avril Lavigne
I think people should have fun. And don’t get so down on yourself.