Comedy Quote by Jim Norton

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

— John Waters

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy.…

— Tom Green

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

— Seth MacFarlane

People, when they talk or write about comedy, they don't really get it.

— Michael Keaton

People say the comedy is so shocking, but if you read newspapers or look around generally - I mean, obviously I'm not writing about…

— Julia Davis

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

— Adam McKay

It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but…

— Whit Stillman

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people…

— Abe Burrows

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

— Bryant H. McGill

For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves.…

— Demetri Martin

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing…

— Brett Gelman