“Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.” ComedyUniqueLaughterNoise Author:Steve Coogan
“When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.” MenFacesGuyComedyLaughterWork OutHopefullyCrewStiflingMovie SetsHoping Someone Author:Dane Cook
“Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.” FunnyDiesLaughingComedyHumourLaughterFrogsDissectingAnalysing Author:Barry Cryer
“Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.” ArtSaidHappinessFormJoyComedyLaughterArt IsCriticsDramaticInstantJackie Author:Chuck Jones
“The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.” ShouldHumansPurposeMoralComedyWrittenObjectsHighestLaughterDignityEmbraceFruitVicesBitterSarcasmSignificanceSaltRidiculeDegradationAmusedHuman DignityIndignationEpigramsDiscrepanciesEmbrace LifeDiscrepancies Between Author:Vissarion Belinsky
“People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.” PeopleWayBigsDarkComedySkyLaughterWinterDucksTrappedHuntersCapsFurSauceJanuaryMercuryBlizzardFrigidDark Comedy Book:Medicine Source: Medicine
“Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.” ThinkingWritingKindGuyViewsClearComedyLaughterCrowdsPoint Of ViewCleverInnocenceShockLogicalTwistedArrowsStout Author:Ben Fong-Torres
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.” ArtFormComedyHonestLaughterFake Author:Lenny Bruce
“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.” WayArtSoundRoomsAudienceRecordsComedyRocksLaughterErrorsAlbums Author:Vir Das