This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.

Richard Eder

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Jerry Seinfeld

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Buster Keaton

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

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

Sid Caesar

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

Buster Keaton

I'm so sorry I fell down.

Buster Keaton

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

Benito Mussolini

It's a comedy. A great one.

Katie Simons

There's a lot of comedy in this as well.

Bruce Sevy

Rock 'n' roll of comedy.

Andrew Dice Clay

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

Ana Gasteyer

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

It's a comedy, there's not a great message behind it.

Isla Fisher

It's like this all the time. When we play, it's a comedy act with music.

Scott Crawford

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Well their performance was really brilliant. They should get an Oscar for best performance in a comedy.

Laura Pollan

It's a comedy so there are a lot of fun antics. But there's a lot of heart to the story.

Frank Mcclain

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Mel Brooks

I can't think of anyone who knew how to play comedy better.

Michael Grade

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Robin Williams

I was hoping that the appeal of the show would stretch beyond the anglophile and comedy-obsessed.

Matt Lucas

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

Christopher Fry

I think we will probably be a comedy.

Marta Kauffman

Comedy just seemed like the way in.

Orlando Jones

I like doing the action and the romantic comedy stuff.

Mark Ruffalo

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

V. S. Naipaul

Def Comedy Jam.

Martin Lawrence

Any time you have a comedy with Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers, you'd love to see it do more.

Tom Sherak

It is like a black comedy.

Liza Maza

You never heard of a comedy team that didn't fight, did you?

Bud Abbott

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

They basically had a comedy of errors going.

Capt. Chuck Bastak

I cast actors which I thought were very grounded. It was not like a musical comedy.

John Turturro

One hit can get the audience's faith back that a comedy can be good.

Joe Keenan

Doing that (the comedy gig) has been very enjoyable.

Rove Mcmanus

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Marty Feldman

It's not only sword fighting, it's also comedy.

Colby Thomas

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

We have opera, we have comedy, and we have...everything…. It's very loving and warm.

David Turner

There was a lot of sexual comedy in there we couldn't do because of where we are.

Dana Brown

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Dick Cavett

Is a comedy, not a Lifetime movie.

Scott Seomin

In my culture not a lot of people are doing this (comedy).

Rasika Mathur

The Comedy of Errors.

Old Globe Theatre

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

J. B. Priestley

The best way to bring people together with about any subject they're uncomfortable with is through comedy.

Jimi Mistry

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Brittany Daniel

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

Rodney Carrington

The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.

Wendy Wasserstein

There's a Baxter in every single romantic comedy.

Michael Showalter

It's all about the GOP comedy.

Jamie Masada

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

Pierce Brosnan

It's comedy with a universal appeal with a Latin flavor.

Rick Najera

It's another comedy of errors. It's something that's totally unacceptable.

Larry Blakeney

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.

Susan Sarandon

I'm not sure if it's going to be a tragedy or comedy, or how it will play out.

Rep. Gene Pelowski

Comedy is what we do, curling is just a sideline.

Jamie King

Comedy is always slighted.

Jay Carr