Collection Quote by David Farr

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

— Mason Cooley

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

— Steve Coogan

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a…

— Laura Linney

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

— Mel Brooks

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when…

— Colin Firth

Comedy is not good for anything, really. Apart from being one of the only things that makes life worth living.

— Jesse Armstrong

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a…

— Whitney Cummings

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

— Ellen Page

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

— George Carlin

I always feel that comedy, at its best, tackles issues that are controversial, polarizing, volatile, and sheds light onto those issues and the people…

— Randall Park

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human…

— Stephen Mangan