Approach Quote by Joe Flaherty

Missing out on 'Monty Python' was a real blow at the time. I sometimes wonder how things would have been different if I had…

— David Jason

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged…

— Alice Lowe

“The alienated audiences was one that was aware of the performance as an arbitrary construction of the real, of the difference between players and…

— John Fiske

I had the idea that there were secret laws of the universe that could explain the baffling human reality around me, and that philosophers…

— Catherine Wilson

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

— David O. Russell

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this…

— Rowan Atkinson

I realised that all one really had to do was just observe. Observe and slightly exaggerate, and you had comedy. Instead of creating a…

— Mel Brooks

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose…

— Eddie Izzard

The way we got our audience was very organic.

— John Popper

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

— Terry Pratchett

I think the audience is pretty intelligent.

— Shia LaBeouf

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

— Bill Hicks