Camera Quote by Tom Green

Comedy is merely tragedy happening to someone else.

— W. C. Fields

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

— Angela Carter

In my comedy when there's a victim, it's me.

— John Bishop

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Comedy is essentially about watching a bunch of people who you really love lose their dignity.

— Adrian Dunbar

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

— Elayne Boosler

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own…

— Rita Mae Brown

There's something inherently British about siding with the underdog. While comedy needs victims, it doesn't need to treat them in a brutal way -…

— Hugh Dennis

The victims aren't really victimized in a way that it comes off totally mean-spirited or negative, ... It's a fun, fun victimization, if that's possible.

— Tom Green

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea…

— Peter Bowles