Comedy
A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright and amusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the manners of society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play in which mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; -- opposed to tragedy.
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Comedy Quotations
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
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
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Benito Mussolini
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
Comedy Translations
comedy in Afrikaans is komedie
comedy in Dutch is blijspel, komedie
comedy in Spanish is comedia
comedy in Swedish is komedi, lustspel
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