Comedy Quote by Russell Baker

Comedy is what keeps us alive.

— George Schlatter

Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh…

— Bill Bixby

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

— Joan Cusack

We have to have humor to survive 22 episodes a year of network television.

— Sallie Patrick

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio…

— Christopher Lloyd

People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of…

— Sally Hawkins

Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I…

— Victor Levin

Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your…

— Hiam Abbass

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

— Thundercat

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

— Bruce Robinson

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

— Denis Norden

I think comedy is drama, often. It's hard to have comedy over a period of time - commercials are one thing, but over a…

— Gore Verbinski