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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