#comedy

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#comedy #cry #difficult #easier #i

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#asking #been #comedians #comedy #e-mail

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#always #believable #comedy #exaggerated #ludicrous

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#funny #intending #laugh #make #somebody

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself. ↗

— Seth MacFarlane

#comedy #finds #half-hour #itself #kind

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#class #comedy #into #played #sink

I don't understand why people think it's harder to do drama than it is to do comedy. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#drama #harder #i #people #than

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it. ↗

— Cheech Marin

#compromise #doing #guy #hard #know

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. ↗

— Marc Maron

#bred #club #comedy #comedy club #comics

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#carrey #comedian #comedy #him #i