Art Quote by Simon Critchley

There's an art to comedy.

— Marlon Wayans

Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.

— Eddie Griffin

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's…

— Jackie Mason

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree…

— David Rees

Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the…

— Barry Humphries

There's an art to stupid comedy. There's an art to offensive comedy, and I think the key is it's just gotta make you laugh.

— Hayden Schlossberg

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages…

— Patricia Piccinini

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

“Humor today goes hand in hand with our rationality, and not just rationality in the sense of cognitive sophistication, but also in the sense…

— John Morreall

Maybe I don't have the same sense of humor. Maybe people aren't comfortable gauging a painting that way. They think that if it's a…

— Joe Bradley

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

— Herman Wouk