Absurd Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of…

— Andrew Denton

If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and one-liners and…

— Jeff Baena

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Comedy characters that take themselves very seriously, but are actually fools, is so funny.

— Natasia Demetriou

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's…

— Bryan Cranston

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're…

— Colin Quinn

I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple years ago, a general…

— Natalie Zea

If comedy can be both - silly and fun but also say something and start a dialogue - that's the most you can ever…

— Lauren Ash

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry

When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a group of…

— Romesh Ranganathan

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate…

— John Oliver

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…

— James Thurber