Humor Quote by Lee Mack

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We…

— Bob Newhart

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing…

— Eugene Mirman

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there…

— Nish Kumar

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

— Alexei Sayle

Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start…

— Doug Stanhope

Comedy always benefits from different points of view and even tension. It can never be satisfied.

— Nahnatchka Khan

The '80s was a great decade for comedy.

— Judge Reinhold

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

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

— Aristotle

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the alternative theatre…

— Tony Robinson

A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have…

— Will Ferrell

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit…

— Pete Holmes