Comedy Quote by Zach Galifianakis

For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in…

— Bo Burnham

Comedy is really exciting to me.

— Luke Perry

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising…

— Ricky Gervais

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and…

— John Lithgow

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.

— Tim Blake Nelson

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better about life,…

— Miranda Hart

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to…

— Bo Burnham

Comedy, unlike drama, demands surprise. You can't quietly and thoughtfully enjoy a comedy.

— Craig Mazin

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

— Chris Lilley

The secret to humor is surprise.

— Aristotle

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

— Bill Watterson

I never really tried comedy, so it was exciting to be part of one and to challenge myself that way.

— Lee Je-hoon