Comedian Quote by Omid Djalili

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

— Helen Fielding

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder…

— Jimmy Carr

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

The trend the world over is comedy. People have enough tragedies in their lives.

— Priyadarshan

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

— Tiffany Haddish

I feel like comedy is only respected on the highest level, and on every other level, it's like a joke, like, 'Ugh - comedian,'…

— Michael Che

People are much more vicious about comedy than about anything else. If it's drama they go: 'Oh well, that didn't really work.' But comedy,…

— Harry Enfield

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

— Roberto Benigni

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

— Bryant H. McGill

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

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us…

— Michael Eric Dyson