Audience Quote by Bill Hicks

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that…

— Eric Idle

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

— Jenna Elfman

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

— Adam McKay

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

— Paul Goodman

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

— Neal Brennan

The real heart of comedy is uncovering a truth about yourself or about the world that you didn't see.

— Ari Graynor

“The consequences of illusions becomes reality.”

— Steven Redhead

Where comedy works best is where it does something unexpected and seeks to shed a different light on something which you haven't necessarily thought…

— Rebecca Root

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

— Steven Wright

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

— Paul Lynde

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind

— Gilbert Seldes