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The art of the clown is more profound than we think… It is the comic mirror of tragedy and the tragic mirror of comedy.

André Suarès

Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.

Theodore Rozak

Send in the clowns.

Stephen Sondheim

co●me●di●an n one who plays comic parts

com●e●dy n the humorous element in life or in a literary work; an amusing event or events

com●ic adj having to do with comedy; intended to be humorous, funny, amusing com●ic n

com●i●cal adj causing laughter because of humor unexpectedly introduced

com●i●cal●it●y n com●i●cal●ly adv

Professor to student: “Ask me what is the secret to comedy.”

Student: “What is the secret—”

Professor: “Timing!”

Anonymous

Comedy has to be truth. You take the truth and put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

Comedy breaks down walls.

Goldie Hawn

Any kind of comedy releases, you know, frustration.

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