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  • Mel Brooks said:

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

  • Sid Caesar said:

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

  • Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  • All I need to make a comedy is a park a policeman and a pretty girl.

  • Monty Python said:

    A reading from the Book of Armaments Chapter 4 Verses 16 to 20: Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch saying Bless this O Lord that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits in thy mercy. And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ? Now did the Lord say ?First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count neither shalt thou count two excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three being the number of the counting be reached then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe who being naughty in my sight shall snuff it.

  • Life is a tragedy for those who feel but a comedy to those who think.

  • James Agee said:

    He used this great sad motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the tracks end of pure insanity; mulish imperturbability under the wildest of circumstances; how dead a human being can get and still be alive …

  • Comedy is tragedy plus time.

  • Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

  • The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze weigh and clarify things in us which nettle us or which we are outgrowing or trying to reshape.

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