Comedy

There is a universality to comedy.
-Simon Pegg

Life literally abounds in comedy
if you just look around you.
-Mel Brooks

From there to here,
and here to there,
funny things
are everywhere.
-Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)

Comedy has to be based on truth.
You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
-Sid Caesar

The comic is the perception of the opposite;
humor is the feeling of it.
-Umberto Eco

I always wanted my comedy
to be more embracing of the species than debasing of it.
-Lily Tomlin

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool,
and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
-Miguel de Cervantes

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
-Peter Ustinov

The duty of comedy is to correct men
while amusing them.
-Moliere

Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
-Wislawa Szymborska

We participate in tragedy.
At comedy we only look.
-Aldous Huxley