“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
Mel Brooks

“I'm scared of comedy. I thinks it demands stage experience and I've never been before the footlights. I wish I had. Do you know, I have a curious recurrent dream that I am in a stage play and most embarrassed - like those dreams when one is caught in extreme negligee in some public place.”
Norma Shearer

“It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
Jack Lemmon

“The great comedians imitate children. That's their ability.”
Hal Roach

“There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy.”
Chris Lloyd