“My comedy is like a golem, it obtains it's power from the truth.”
Jairo Fernández
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”
Oscar Wilde
“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
Christopher Fry
“Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.”
George Carlin
“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”
Sid Caesar
“Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,”
Monty Python
“You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.”
Julianne Moore