Trunk Minions

Comedy is tragedy plus time. - Carol Burnett

Comedy is acting out optimism. - Robin Williams

Good taste is the enemy of comedy. - Mel Brooks

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle. - Goldie Hawn

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

Comedy is society protecting itself - with a smile. - J.B. Priestley

God writes comedy but sometimes has a slow audience. - Garrison Keillor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. - Gilbert Seldes

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

My favorite romantic comedy is 'When Harry Met Sally.' - Ginnifer Goodwin

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it. - Jay Leno

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

I ordered a bed from IKEA and they sent me a tree trunk and a saw. - Eileen Curtright

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl. - Charlie Chaplin

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - Jean de La Bruyere

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it. - Denis Diderot

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. - Horace Walpole

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

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks

Comedy's a funny game, it's not a job, it's a vocation - you never stop. - Eric Sykes

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

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

There are three basic rules for great comedy. Unfortunately no-one can remember what they are. - Arthur Smith

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude. - Don Rickles

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas

Give me a Murphy bed, a Lazy Susan, a grandfather clock and a bulldog, and I will show you the meaning of comedy. - Jonathan Goldstein

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. - John S Mill

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously. - Tim Allen

I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. - Mark Twain