Being Quote by Simon Rich

Disasters are funny to me. As a comedian you learn from failure, so I'm always trying to put myself in a situation that does…

— Anthony Jeselnik

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes…

— Paul Provenza

There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy, drama or…

— Harry Treadaway

Every disasters screams for humor

— Silvia Millecam

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

— Paul Feig

Most of what I write is comedy.

— Patrick Marber

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

— Rob Walton

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

— Peter Baynham

I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me…

— Cynthia Ozick

Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.

— Horace Walpole

I don't want to make a style. Not tragedy, not comedy. Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky