Affirmation Quote by Michael Malone

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

— Peter Ustinov

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human…

— Stephen Mangan

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

— Randy Rainbow

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

— Michael McIntyre

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

— Gad Elmaleh

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

— Helen Fielding

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

— Becky Stark

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

— Joshua Ferris

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

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way…

— Christopher Walken