Difficult Quote by Stephen Leacock

If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways.…

— Val Kilmer

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek…

— Brendan Coyle

“The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets…

— Leo Rosten

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

— Simon Critchley

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

— F. Sionil Jose

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

— Roger Ebert

Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's…

— Elif Batuman

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.

— Julie Walters

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to know that…

— Ken Jeong

“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

The most successful people in comedy do seem to be the most funny.

— Alex Horne