• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  

  Charles Chaplin

  AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 45 reads

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• Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 38 reads

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 22 reads

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• Science fiction and comedy are generally a pretty bumpy mix.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.1 · 28 votes · 59 reads

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• The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still converti

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 73 reads

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• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 5 reads

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• We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 67 reads

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• We mustn't complain too much of being comedians, it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed, that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 7 reads

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