Comedy Quote by Moliere

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

— Moliere

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

— John Cleese

I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected.

— Greg Proops

“Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily life.”

— Tina Fey

There's a lot of ordinariness, and people tend to play to the same regressive tropes - sexism, patriarchy, unkindness to the oppressed. Comedy shouldn't…

— Varun Grover

There's a real freedom in being involved in a comedy. You can lean into the silliness of who we are as people.

— Harris Dickinson

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

— Jenny Eclair

There is a universality to comedy.

— Simon Pegg

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them.

— Steve Coogan

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I'm…

— Doug Stanhope

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society…

— Eric Idle

Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a living.

— Ali Wong