Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.
Wanda Sykes

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes

And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
Wanda Sykes

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
Jo Brand

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
Tina Fey

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
Patton Oswalt

A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.
Jerry Lewis

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
John Cleese

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
John Cleese

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.
John Cleese

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
Kathy Griffin

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
Marty Feldman

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
Neil Gaiman

The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.
Dawn French

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
Robert De Niro