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Comedy
There is no essential difference between
the material of comedy and tragedy. All
depends on the point of view of the dramatist,
which, by clever emphasis, he tries to
make the point of view of his audience.
George P. Baker
Comedy is simply a funny
way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
You never heard of a comedy
team that didn't fight, did you?
Bud Abbott
I'm a classic example of all humorists -
only funny when I'm working.
Peter Sellers
Situation comedy on television has thrived for
years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines
by technicians using records of guffawing
audiences that have been dead for years.
Russell Baker
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your
friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get
paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people
talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry Seinfeld
Comedy is hard in that it's timing,
and you have to get the timing down,
which requires a lot of revision.
Richard Russo
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.
Woody Allen
Creative comedy is like growing
geraniums in a mine field.
Jerry Stiller
In high school, I was the class comedian
as opposed to the class clown. The difference
is, the class clown is the guy who drops his
pants at the football game, the class
comedian is the guy who talked him into it.
Billy Crystal
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy
is one of the things that allows one to
survive. Particularly if one has been in the
process of separating off the emotions,
it's one place you can process them.
Twyla Tharp
What is comedy? Comedy is
the art of making people laugh
without making them puke.
Steve Martin
There is a thin line that separates
laughter and pain, comedy and
tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck
Life is a dream for the wise, a
game for the fool, a comedy for the
rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
