Quotes About Comedy
Most popular Comedy quotes
![Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov quote.](/img/q/61/11061A-comedy-is-simply-a-funny-way-being-serious-peter-ustinov.png)
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
![Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin quote.](/img/q/75/20875A-life-is-a-tragedy-when-seen-close-up-but-comedy-charlie-chaplin.png)
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.
![Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue. - Woody Allen quote.](/img/q/92/28292A-comedy-just-pokes-at-problems-rarely-confronts-them-squarely-drama-woody-allen.png)
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
![Comedy has to be truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. - Sid Caesar quote.](/img/q/93/28293A-comedy-has-to-be-truth-you-take-truth-you-put-sid-caesar.png)
Comedy has to be truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
![The greater the stress within society the stronger the comic antidote required. - Ralph Ellison quote.](/img/q/94/28294A-the-greater-the-stress-within-society-stronger-comic-antidote-required-ralph-ellison.png)
The greater the stress within society the stronger the comic antidote required.
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
![Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair. - Christopher Fry quote.](/img/q/96/28296A-comedy-is-an-escape-not-from-truth-but-from-despair-christopher-fry.png)
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair.
![Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself—with a smile. - J. B. Priestley quote.](/img/q/00/28300A-comedy-we-may-say-is-society-protecting-itself-with-smile-j-b-priestley.png)
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself—with a smile.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
![Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. - James Thurber quote.](/img/q/02/28302A-every-time-is-a-time-for-comedy-world-tension-that-james-thurber.png)
Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it.
![Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks quote.](/img/q/04/28304A-tragedy-is-if-i-cut-my-finger-comedy-is-if-mel-brooks.png)
Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die.
![Comedy is tragedy plus time. - Carol Burnett quote.](/img/q/05/28305A-comedy-is-tragedy-plus-time-carol-burnett.png)
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
![Comedy is but tragedy, cunningly disguised and popularized for the multitude. - George Jean Nathan quote.](/img/q/08/28308A-comedy-is-but-tragedy-cunningly-disguised-popularized-multitude-george-jean-nathan.png)
Comedy is but tragedy, cunningly disguised and popularized for the multitude.
![Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing. - Phyllis Diller quote.](/img/q/73/39673A-sex-is-identical-to-comedy-in-that-it-involves-timing-phyllis-diller.png)
Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing.