1930s Quote by Wilfrid Sheed

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political.…

— David Zucker

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 was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We…

— Bob Newhart

Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today…

— Leonard Maltin

To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad…

— Harry Shearer

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but…

— David Zucker

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

Back in the '90s, whenever we were having '70s nostalgia, you could take the good with the bad. Like yeah, sure, Nixon happened, Watergate…

— Lindsay Ellis

When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I…

— Jim Woodring

'Smart Funny & Black' came about because I felt that black comedians were being considered as only capable of a certain type of comedy…

— Amanda Seales

I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow…

— Hugh Hefner

All the time I see things that remind me very much of the 1930s.

— Mikis Theodorakis