Comedy Quote by Norman Lear

I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to…

— Norman Wisdom

I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of…

— Michaela Coel

In television, and especially in a situation comedy, you kind of play yourself, or at least the essence of yourself.

— Shelley Long

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

— Rodney Carrington

If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to…

— Gad Elmaleh

I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.

— Simon Bird

I want to try something on situational comedy.

— Neena Gupta

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

— Carol Kane

I think I always wanna write comedy because that's what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so…

— Owen King

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

— Anthony Jeselnik

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being…

— Simon Rich

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

— Anonymous