Comedy Quote by Gerald Stern

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

— Gary D. Schmidt

There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or…

— Harry Treadaway

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for…

— Elbert Hubbard

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later…

— Brian Regan

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not…

— Langston Hughes

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is…

— Anonymous

There's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and…

— Baron Vaughn

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.

— Romesh Ranganathan

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

— Eric Drooker

People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling…

— Howard Jacobson