The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
James Thurber

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber

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

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Pauly Shore

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was.
Chevy Chase

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

They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.
Mike Epps

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.
Mike Epps

I think in life, the sense of humor and comedy always exists.
Mike Epps

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

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.
Paul Lynde

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

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler

As for Tenacious D, of course it could work as a full length movie; all it requires is a great writer and great director with an ability to think outside of conventional film comedy.
David Cross

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.
Ben Stiller

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit.
Ben Stiller

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Cheech Marin

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