Comedy Quote by Lizz Winstead

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

Making someone laugh is a good way to get their defences down so that they might then be open to new ideas, especially when…

— Mae Martin

I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop…

— Kenya Barris

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry

Whatever makes you laugh is fine, and all we can do as comedy professionals is try to steer you towards something that we think…

— Paul Feig

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.

— Eddie Griffin

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in…

— Richard L. Evans

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your…

— Hiam Abbass

Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have…

— Christoph Waltz

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a way to…

— Wendy Wasserstein