Phyllis Diller Quotes

I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like "my wife shops too much", or "kids today", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint.

Comedy is tragedy revisited.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is...thinking, 'This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.'

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.

I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

I love to do comedy, and I don't think of things as drama or comedy. I think that if it's a funny line, it's a funny line. If it's a funny moment, it's a funny moment.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

The whole point of comedy, what's fun, is taking the stupid thought I had and working it into something that makes a bunch of people laugh.

The best comedy is based on truth.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

Comedy can be very deep sometimes.