All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. Charlie Chaplin
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Horace Walpole
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin
Comedy is tragedy plus time. Carol Burnett
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. Angela Carter
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be. Jerry Seinfeld
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
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Sid Caesar
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith. Christopher Fry
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun. Jerry Seinfeld
Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. John Guare
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. Marty Feldman
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. Steve Martin
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment. Christopher Fry
Comedy itself is based upon very old principals of which I can readily name seven. They are, in short: the joke, exaggeration, ridicule, ignorance, surprise, the pun, and finally, the comic situation. Jack Benny
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. George Carlin
Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations. Chuck Jones