Animus Quote by Irving Howe

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

— Chuck Jones

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in…

— Rupert Holmes

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

— John Ratzenberger

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

— Buster Keaton

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The arts community still has a long lasting cynicism of the importance, or the artistic value, of comedy. Comedy is just farting about for…

— Rowan Atkinson

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.

— Robin Williams

I think the way comedy is represented on screen is it's either all fart jokes - and it's just laughter for the sake of…

— Hasan Minhaj

I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

— Peter O'Toole