Audience Quote by Bo Burnham

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

— Denis Norden

Good comedy is ageless.

— Ted Levine

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

— Paul Merton

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Most modern comedy is crap.

— Anonymous

Comedy is such a frivolous world that it can make you addicted to the frivolity, and then a lot of people don't settle down…

— Ivo Graham

Postmodern theatre seems unwilling to listen to talk about textual or theatrical heritage, which it treats as no more than memory in the technical…

— Patrice Pavis

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the…

— Tommy Chong

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

— Hannah Gadsby

Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.

— Johnny Vegas

There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't…

— Varun Grover

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A lot of…

— Peter Kay