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comedy

«Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.»
Author: Christopher Fry (Writer) | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy, narrow, narrow escape
«Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind»
«Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.»
Author: Peter Ustinov | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy
«Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.»
Author: Sid Caesar | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy, curlicue
«All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.»
«Applaud friends, the comedy is over. (Said as he was dying)»
«Comedy is acting out optimism.»
«Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke»
Author: Steve Martin (Actor, Comedian, Musician, Producer, Writer) | About: Comedy | Keywords: comedy, puke
«Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose -- to make people laugh.»
Author: W. C. Fields (Actor, Comic) | Keywords: comedy
«Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.»