American Quote by Tom Malinowski

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the priesthood. That…

— Robert Klein

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of…

— Jeff Daniels

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we always made…

— Maysoon Zayid

Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?

— Paul Lynde

Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know.…

— Ben Feldman

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged…

— Alice Lowe

There is a universality to comedy.

— Simon Pegg

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

“One of the traits of sophistication is the capacity to cross borders between different cultural relevancies. Humor is often, intentionally or not, the result…

— Peter L. Berger

There are definitely racial problems in this country [the USA]. Comedy is a way we can figure out how to solve it, and how…

— Margaret Cho

A lot of my comic influences are distinctly American: Woody Allen and Bob Hope, for example. They were always the underdogs who were using…

— Stephen Merchant

Comedy in America is very serious. Either they laugh, or they don't.

— Gad Elmaleh