Comedy Quote by David Walliams

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

— Judd Apatow

I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I would defend.…

— 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

People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians to me…

— Randy Rainbow

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

— Keegan-Michael Key

I used comedy to deflect a lot of situations; if you make someone laugh, they don't want to punch you in the face.

— Mel Rodriguez

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

— Lee Mack

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

— George Carlin

Well, comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

— Eddie Izzard

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

— Eddie Izzard

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

— Phyllis Diller