“My favorite comedy is comedy where nothing is achieved and there is no point.”
“Great comedy is great comedy only if it has an element of truth in it.”
[Davis, E. Gene, Get 'Em Laughing: Public Speaking Humor, Quotes and Illustrations, Trafford Publishing, 2007-09-12, 68, 1425114334, 9781425114336]
Attributed
“There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?”
Mocking the TV-violence debate, as quoted in Life, Vol. 18 (1995), p. 8 http://books.google.com/books?id=bNcxAQAAIAAJ&q=%22There's+so+much+comedy+on+television.+Does+that+cause+comedy+in+the+streets?%22&dq=%22There's+so+much+comedy+on+television.+Does+that+cause+comedy+in+the+streets?%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I23qTvzhLsWgtwfNmJCUCg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA
Comedy album "Comedy is Not Pretty"
“Our comedies are not to be laughed at.”
Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It (1990), p. 38-39.
Misattributed
“Comedy is easy. Intrigue is hard.”
Source: Fugitives of Chaos (2006), Chapter 3, “Circuitous Acts” (p. 52)
“Human life is basically a comedy.”
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1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.
As quoted in Lavender Diamond seeks world peace, by Jake Coyle in USA Today (27 April 2007)
“Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…”
on his death bed
Original: Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
