sees life simply, without complications.
George Bishop
A clown is a poet in action.
Henry Miller
A good clown caricatures his fellow men;
a great one parodies himself.
Pierre Mariel
It is meat and drink to me to see a clown.
William Shakespeare
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
Thomas Sydenham
The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do.
We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.
James Hillman
Clowns are ordinary folk, jest like you and me, only worse.
Edward Fitchner
I remain just one thing and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, one has a sense of the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires the authority in the art of the comic.
Søren Kierkegaard
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Denis Diderot
God writes a lot of comedy…the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor
Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
Mel Brooks
The art of the clown is more profound than we think… It is the comic mirror of tragedy and the tragic mirror of comedy.
André Suarès
Clown and guru are a single identity: the satiric and sublime side of the same higher vision of life.
Theodore Rozak
Send in the clowns.
Stephen Sondheim
co●me●di●an n one who plays comic parts
com●e●dy n the humorous element in life or in a literary work; an amusing event or events
com●ic adj having to do with comedy; intended to be humorous, funny, amusing com●ic n
com●i●cal adj causing laughter because of humor unexpectedly introduced
com●i●cal●it●y n com●i●cal●ly adv
Professor to student: “Ask me what is the secret to comedy.”
Student: “What is the secret—”
Professor: “Timing!”
Anonymous
Comedy has to be truth. You take the truth and put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
Comedy breaks down walls.
Goldie Hawn
Any kind of comedy releases, you know, frustration.
Andrew Dice Clay
Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.
Marty Feldman
Comedy is relief.
Sid Caesar
Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophanes
Comedy is a mysterious and unexplored art.
Robert Klein
Comedy is essentially a miracle. I believe I’m as important to society as a doctor; to create laughter creates magic. These days nothing is more important.
Kathleen Freeman
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
Steve Martin
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world…often a deeply felt rage.
Samuel S. Janus
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
George Carlin
Stand-up comedy is the art of letting an audience laugh
by simulating spontaneity.
Lee Glickstein
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair;
a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry
Comedy is in my blood. Frankly, I wish it were in my act!
Rodney Dangerfield
They don’t seem to write…comedy anymore—just a series of gags.
Barbara Stanwyck
In all comedy there is something regressive that takes us back to the world of play that we first knew as children.
Roger Polhemus
Comedy is mentally pulling the rug out from under each person in your audience. But first, you have to get them to stand on it. You have to fool them, because if they see you preparing to tug on the rug, they’ll move.
Gene Perret
Comedy is an ability to observe and see what’s funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.
Madeline Kahn
A comedian is not a man who says funny things.
A comedian is one who says things funny.
Ed Wynn
Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
Walter Kerr
To listen to your own silence
