| "At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle |
| "When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier" »Carol Burnett |
| "It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." »Jack Lemmon |
| "comedy is allied to justice." »Aristophenes |
| "We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look." »Aldous Huxley |
| "comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred." »Pico Iyer |
| "comedy is tragedy plus time." »Carol Burnett |
| "comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." »Peter Ustinov |
| "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." »Unknown |
| "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." »Horace Walpole |
| "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." »La Bruyere |
| "The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be." »Jerry Seinfeld |
| "comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind." »Edward Albee |
| "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." »Charlie Chaplin |
| "The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel." »James Thurber |
| "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." »Mel Brooks |
| "God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny." »Garrison Keillor |
| "It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously." »Stephen Fry |
| "Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world." »Albert Einstein |
| "Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe." »Flannery O'Connor |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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