Comedy Quote by Harry Levin

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

— Zosia Mamet

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of…

— Joseph Campbell

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

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses…

— William Hazlitt

“comedy and comic satisfaction thrive on things that do not exactly add up. They thrive on these discrepancies as a source of pleasure rather…

— Alenka Zupančič

The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable…

— Paul Di Filippo

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

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

— Susan Sontag

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like…

— Javier Camara

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