Let's face it, comedy's a dead art form. Tragedy, now…

“What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got…

— Luigi Pirandello

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.

— Paul Mooney

I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it…

— Iris Murdoch

I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to suffer, but…

— Harry Lennix

I love straight-face comedy or relatively subtle comedy. And then I turn around and I find myself doing very broad comedy but it's all…

— Betty White

I mean, I've got a face for comedy. I say that with love. It does its job.

— Roisin Conaty

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in…

— Janeane Garofalo

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

— Gilbert Gottfried

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because you can…

— Ben Miller

I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without…

— Betty White

Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way.

— Roisin Conaty

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

— Sam Kinison

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken…

— George Carlin

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

— Curtis Jackson

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones