The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

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

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Stephen Sondheim

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

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
Paul Watzlawick

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.
Rodney Carrington

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Michael Caine

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
Michael Caine

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Drew Carey

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

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.
Twyla Tharp

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
Moliere

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
Moliere

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.
Gene Wilder

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

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.
Chris Tucker

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
Salma Hayek