Academic Quote by Maureen Corrigan

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.

— John Ratzenberger

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in…

— Rupert Holmes

The thing you realize pretty quickly, though, is that being in front of an audience whose job it is to laugh is a big…

— Eric McCormack

“Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.”

— Daniel Prokop

I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick

“Humor has always been my tool of choice when confronting intolerance or ignorance, not only because “funny” material is much more likely to be…

— George Takei

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I…

— Mark Haddon

Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.

— W. Somerset Maugham

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

How can you feel like an actual member of society casting a vote for a president when in a professional interview you said that…

— Kyle Kinane

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses…

— William Hazlitt

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge