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You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

— Don Rickles

Stephen Sondheim is calculus for actors. The words are witty and brilliant and profound but complicated.

— Marc Platt

I would say, generally speaking, though it is not always the case, comedy is probably the least gratifying for most composers because it is…

— James Newton Howard

Comedy isn't subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don't.

— Rob Beckett

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

— Mark Twain

I never analyze stuff with comedy because it's boring. It makes you stop being funny. Just be who you are and do what you…

— Jeff Garlin

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree…

— David Rees

Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill…

— Betty White

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet…

— Stephen Leacock

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets…

— Leo Rosten

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk

“The only type of humor that is excused lower classness is satire, and satire is the chamber music of comedy - a joke that…

— A.A. Gill