I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing…

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

— Aristotle

Although I do use some of my psychology training in comedy, but it's more like pop psychology, not a course of treatment or anything.…

— Matt Walsh

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we…

— Steven Moffat

The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately its starting to get a little saturated.

— Theophilus London

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving…

— Esther Dyson

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to…

— Miranda Hart

When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was…

— Eric Idle

Writing comedy is a superpower.

— Abi Morgan

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

— Michael Caine

I would like to help young women writing comedy, acting, anything like that.

— Rachel Sennott

I've been a musician and a songwriter for years, since I was a teenager, and made my living doing that on and off for…

— Rachel Parris

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

— Stephen Gaghan

I think that's part of being a comedy writer. You have to be confident. If you're sitting around worrying about, like, oh my God,…

— David Mandel

I love writing comedy.

— Mark Waid

At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions…

— Steve Martin