Balls Quote by Mel Brooks

I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you don't have…

— Penelope Cruz

When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's humorous, and…

— Zoe Quinn

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.

— Romesh Ranganathan

The best comedy comes from having real moments, heart and all. You can't just have people making jokes over and over and over again.

— Molly Gordon

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a…

— Whitney Cummings

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're…

— Antonio Banderas

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later…

— Brian Regan

As far as how I approach the humor, I think the best comedy is going to happen when I'm myself and act organically to…

— Nikki Glaser

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

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

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable…

— Dave Rubin

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