People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.
I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.
You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
Dying is easy; comedy is hard.