Roald Dahl Quotes

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

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

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Comedy can't be about continuous success.

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

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.

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

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when you're doing comedy - and this is just my own thing, and maybe it's why I've never been hired in comedy except by Bill Lawrence - but I think that the less winking you do with comedy, the better off you are.

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

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.

It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so interwoven. I've always been a sucker for that.

Comedy comes out of everyone's worst day. No one writes a sitcom episode about everyone having a good day. It's always about someone being locked out of their house or someone being dumped or whatever.

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

I think the funniest stuff comes from the heaviest stuff.

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

The most important thing in comedy - apart from empathy, which I think is important even if disguised - is surprise. I like surprising people with the fact that something's even a joke at all.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.