Brilliant Quote by Val Kilmer

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet…

— Stephen Leacock

In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he…

— Lisa Lampanelli

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to…

— Stephen Root

It's really challenging to play comedy.

— Michelle Monaghan

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

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Comedy is hard. In many ways, it's like singing: If you have perfect pitch, it's much easier. But you can still go a long…

— Jennifer Crusie

I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He…

— Elmore Leonard

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

— F. Sionil Jose

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a…

— Twinkle Khanna

If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.

— Sacha Guitry

My philosophy is that if you're playing a moment truthfully, that it's a funny moment, then hopefully it will be funny. I like to…

— Peter Vack