Avoiding Quote by John Guare

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist. It meets…

— Yiyun Li

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

— Pico Iyer

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the…

— Steve Coogan

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

— Mason Cooley

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for…

— Elbert Hubbard

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

— Steve Coogan

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

— Carol Burnett

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

— Susan Sontag