Comedy Quote by Bassem Youssef

Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take…

— Maz Jobrani

It is a pleasure to cooperate with Egyptian cinema.

— Boney Kapoor

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made…

— Maysoon Zayid

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever…

— Bassem Youssef

“theatre, pioneering artists such as Fatima Rouschdie and Naguib Al-Rihani introduced popular comedies as well as melodramas (Al-Rihani 1889–1948, ‘the father of Egyptian comedy’,…

— Tarek Osman

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

— Joan Cusack

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists…

— A. R. Rahman

Years ago, there was a variety theatre in every British town, and people paid to go down and see it. Comedy was the main…

— Norman Wisdom

There is a universality to comedy.

— Simon Pegg

I have always loved comedies.

— Lee Isaac Chung

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of…

— Jeff Daniels

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in…

— David Lynch