Comedy Quote by David Foster Wallace

“The saddest task for the ironist is having to tell the listener that it's a joke, because of course it is never a joke.”

— Paul Theroux

“fact, at times it seems as if The Confidence-Man has been aggressively constructed for the purpose of giving the reader the unpleasant feeling of…

— Sianne Ngai

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

— Anna Faris

“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had spoken of…

— Robertson Davies

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

— Mason Cooley

“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty…

— Janet Beizer

“You love SITUATION COMEDIES, whilst holding particular affection for MUSTACHIOED FUNNYMEN. You know, your FOXWORTHIES, your FUNKES, your SWANSONS, but not necessarily your GALLAGHERS…

— Andrew Hussie

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

Comedy's pretty delicate - more delicate than people realize.

— Jimmy Dore

As somebody who works in comedy, I gravitate to the very serious, dramatic things in my consumption of media.

— Lauren Ash

I'm very observational in my comedy and what I create with the characters that I'm blessed to play. I don't believe comedy needs to…

— Michael Dapaah

I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.

— Phil Dunster