American Quote by Rob Sheffield

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs;…

— Jen Kirkman

Very few people took sordid things and made comedies out of them.

— Paul Morrissey

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged…

— Alice Lowe

People used to make fun of alternative comedy because sometimes it would be someone being funny, and sometimes it was a crazy man with…

— Eugene Mirman

I don't think comedy comes from hotbeds of doing shtick. I think it usually comes from some kind of childhood humiliation or darkness.

— Sarah Silverman

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

— Irving Howe

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience,…

— Bob Saget

“Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day - that's pretty…

— Chris Rock

I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it with a…

— Ben Miller

Let's face it, comedy's a dead art form. Tragedy, now that's funny.

— Bender (The Cartoon Character

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there…

— Nish Kumar