Mark Twain Quotes

I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.

Mixing humor and politics is something that works.

I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a lighthearted series of jokes and slapstick. I wanted to talk about some deeper things within the comedy.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

I don't think people understand what comedy is supposed to do. We will observe things, we will make fun of things.

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

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

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

Comedy becomes intensified in short scenes.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

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

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

It's all been satirized for your protection.