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We couldn't live without comedy.

— Sean O'Casey

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they…

— Neil Gaiman

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're…

— Antonio Banderas

Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now…

— Craig Brown

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

— Jason Reitman

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not…

— Ricky Gervais

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

— Bryant H. McGill

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov…

— Ira Sachs

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

— Joan Cusack

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but…

— Whit Stillman

I think sadness and anger are really fertile ground for comedy. No one is really interested in a happy person doing comedy.

— Zach Galifianakis