#comedy

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd. ↗

— Trey Parker

#comedy #creates #jerry #just #realize

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy. ↗

— Dawn Powell

#always #burlesque #comedy #dupe #fox

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#comedy #itself #may #protecting #say

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#funny #interview #tragedy #funny

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#art school #comedy #doing #fine #fine art

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#always #animal #animal house #comedy #could

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#comedy #going #hopefully #just #long

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed. ↗

— Carl Reiner

#anybody #comedy #drama #even #failed

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#i #just #like #never #style

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there. ↗

— Ivan Reitman

#comedy #enhance #helps #things #were