Comedy Quotes

"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."

Lucille Ball

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Peter Ustinov

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."

Mel Brooks

"Comedy is acting out optimism."

"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

Steve Martin

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Charlie Chaplin

"I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."

Joan Rivers

"Comedy has to be based on truth."

Sid Caesar

"The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them."

Moliere

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

Horace Walpole

"I don't get no respect."

"Comedy is not pretty."

Steve Martin

“I'm not funny. What I am is brave.”

Lucille Ball

“Comedy is tragedy plus time.”

Carol Burnett

“A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.”

“I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets.”

“Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.”

“My comedy is different every time I do it.”