Bubbles Quote by Paul Goodman

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

— Barbara Stanwyck

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

— Randy Rainbow

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

— Peter Baynham

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later…

— Brian Regan

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

— Mason Cooley

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

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that…

— Eric Idle

Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.

— Madeline Kahn

The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real thing. You…

— Natasha Lyonne