Comedy Quote by Jack Benny

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

— T. J. Miller

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's…

— Bryan Cranston

Comedy has bits, has jokes, has stories, and it has characters.

— Charlie Murphy

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

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know a specific…

— John Cleese

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and…

— Zoe Quinn

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that…

— Ken Jeong

Comedy, surprisingly for a form that intends to bring joy and joviality, is always upsetting people. Jokes rely on broad strokes, stereotypes, caricatures, exaggerations…

— Sara Pascoe

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

— Randy Rainbow

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a…

— Laura Linney

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

— Madeline Kahn