Causes Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a…

— Laura Linney

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We…

— Alan King

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

— Madeline Kahn

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that…

— Kate McKinnon

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

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

— Thundercat

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

— Ricky Gervais

What's great about comedy, obviously, is that you set up a situation that people assume one thing and then you break the assumption. That's…

— Bryan Cranston

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy…

— Margaret Cho

The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

— Hannah Gadsby

Everybody's gone through things, and I think the point of comedy is to talk about those things in a humorous way so people can…

— Janelle James

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