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Eric Idle
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it mu
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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Eric Idle
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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Carol Burnett
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When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy Are they presuming comedy is easier
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Eric Idle
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At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it mu
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Jack Lemmon
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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Aristophenes
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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La Bruyere
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
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Aldous Huxley
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We participate in a tragedy at a comedy we only look.
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Unknown
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Virginia Woolf
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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Jerry Seinfeld
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The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be.
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Edward Albee
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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
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Garrison Keillor
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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.
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Miguel de Cervantes
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of a fool, and he must be no simpleton who plays the part.
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Garrison Keillor
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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.
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Stephen Fry
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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
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Sid Caesar
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
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Albert Einstein
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Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
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Flannery O'Connor
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Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
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'I can't stay.' Now THAT's comedy! Bye-bye. --Vir
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Comedy is acting out optimism.
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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
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This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.
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"Noveau post-modern comedy for the masses." - The Simpsons
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"Life is a tragedy in close up, but a comedy in long-shot."
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"Hey, all's fair in love and comedy!" -- Yakko Warner
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"New Nightmare" voted the funniest comedy of the year by O.J. Simpson
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"I wept not, so to stone within I grew." - Dante Alighieri - The Inferno - The Divine Comedy
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"Now _that's_ comedy!" t Slappy Squirrel, Animaniacs
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"Like you said-- 'All's fair in love and comedy!'" - B&WYakko
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"We're stretching for the comedy here folks." Slappy Squirrel
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"In the land of the free, now that's comedy!" - Slappy
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"Now _that's_ comedy!" - Slappy Squirrel
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"Oh, stop the comedy! Turn it off!" -- Tom Servo
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"We're strectching for the comedy here, folks." --Slappy
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Ustinov
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"Now that's comedy." - Slappy Squirel
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"Now *that's* comedy!" -- Slappy Squirrel
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"Now *that's* comedy!" - Slappy Squirrel
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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 comed
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"'I can't stay.' Now THAT's comedy! Bye-bye." Vir
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"Now that's comedy!" - Skippy "Cute. But that's my line." - Slappy
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