Comedy Quote by Constance Rourke

“Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.”

— Roberto Bolaño

Comedy has lost its eloquence.

— Robert Klein

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

— Jerry Lewis

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses…

— William Hazlitt

Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

— James Thurber

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

— Gore Vidal

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the…

— Twyla Tharp

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only…

— Johnny Carson

There aren't many pratfalls in comedy anymore.

— Dick Van Dyke

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and…

— Jack Dee

I'm comedy's forgotten nearly man.

— Nick Frost

Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to…

— Denis Leary