Comedy Quote by Phyllis Diller

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

— George Carlin

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

— Phyllis Diller

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

— Warren Mitchell

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and…

— George Meredith

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

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 grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all…

— George Carlin

I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I would defend.…

— Jesse Armstrong

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a…

— Woody Allen

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

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep…

— Will Durst