Black Quote by Charlie Brooker

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

— Wayne Knight

Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I…

— Michael Frayn

The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience…

— David Steinberg

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

— Erik Griffin

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance…

— Dov Davidoff

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in drama would…

— Vanessa Hudgens

When you get big special effects pictures, sci-fi and things, there's little or no comedy. Or it's a domestic comedy and there's not one…

— Mel Brooks

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious undertones. There…

— Woody Allen

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy,…

— Sam Kinison

So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life - my molestation,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm not sure I can name a kind of story that wouldn't work in comics form. It's words and images, and we've been telling…

— James Vance

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but…

— Whit Stillman