Here are some humorous quotes about comedy along with their authors:

“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.” — Robin Williams

“This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” — Horace Walpole

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

“Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.” — Mo Rocca

“Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.” — Denis Leary

“If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.” — Tina Fey

“My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth.” — Taika Waititi

“Friends applaud, the comedy is over.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

“Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.” — Winston Marshall

“For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I’m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it’s hardest to see.” — Robin Williams

“Drama is easy. Comedy’s hard.” — Peter Bogdanovich

“Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn’t about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can’t go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I’m lucky my face can look so hideous.” — Jennifer Coolidge

“I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.” — Bill Burr

“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.” — Steve Martin

“I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.” — Kevin Hart

“Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.” — Mike Birbiglia

“There is nothing more electric than watching a live performance, especially something like improv, comedy, or music – where no two shows are ever completely identical.” — Unknown

“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.” — Chris Rock

“My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.” — Dan Aykroyd

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” — George Carlin

“First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.” — George Burns

“There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?” — Dick Cavett

“Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” — Peter Ustinov

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.” — Jerry Seinfeld

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

“Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.” — Rajneesh

“I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.” — Steven Wright

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.” — George Burns

“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 love John Irving’s stuff. It’s that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It’s really terrific.” — Jeff Bridges

“If a movie isn’t a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.” — Roger Ebert

“If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That’s the greatest sketch comedy you’ll ever see on television.” — Jamie Farr

“But comedy I’d love to do as much as humanly possible.” — Ben Kingsley

“Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.” — Bryant H. McGill²