Comedy Quotes

  • The connective tissue between storytelling, advice, and comedy is passion.
    ~ Lauren Lapkus
  • Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
    ~ Charlie Chaplin
  • The great comics and comedians have been the ones who dared to mix comedy and tragedy.
    ~ Robing Tyler
  • A role of the comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every 15 seconds.
    ~ Lenny Bruce
  • Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.
    ~ Norm MacDonald
  • The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
    ~ Oscar Wilde
  • There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
    ~ Erma Bombeck
  • What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
    ~ Steve Martin
  • Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
    ~ Mel Brooks
  • When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.
    ~ Luke Wilson