Comedy Quote by Seinfeld 2000

“Once you even acknowledge that there is a line, that there are things you shouldn’t be allowed to joke about, that there are words…

— Al Franken

There's an infectiousness to comedy. It's meant to be shared and spread, so I feel like any message that you're talking about through the…

— Jaboukie Young-White

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine…

— James Thurber

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

Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

— James Thurber

“The biggest myth about comedy is that it’s magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is divided into…

— Anonymous

“Comedians and artists are some of the loneliest, self-destructive people on the planet. If you enjoy what they produce, take the time to appreciate…

— Roz Inga

You know how hard it's been to write material? Because to do stand-up comedy, it takes time for the material to develop. So you'll…

— Maz Jobrani

“It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality…

— D.E. Navarro

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

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

I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting a reaction…

— Matthew Zapruder