Comedy Quote by James Thurber

“Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn’t be allowed to joke about, that there are words…

— Al Franken

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

“To give expression to humour, and write in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The cleverest character in comedy…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

— Randy Rainbow

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

— Mason Cooley

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

— George Bernard Shaw

You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the…

— Barry Humphries

There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the…

— Jaboukie Young-White

“The biggest myth about comedy is that it’s magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is divided into…

— Anonymous

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get…

— Randy Rainbow