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Comedy Quotes by Mel Brooks
- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
- Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
- Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with…
- I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
- The only weapon I've got is comedy
- Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
- Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.
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