Comedy Quote by Stephen Leacock

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

— Alan King

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

— Henry Mancini

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

— Eric Drooker

Mark Twain created a new type of literature and not a lot of people can say that. Not a lot of people can say…

— Val Kilmer

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

— Tina Fey

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

— Robin Williams

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes…

— Samuel Fuller

The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom…

— Norman Lock

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

— Ernest Hemingway