Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true. (tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus)

Great comedy is great comedy only if it has an element of truth in it.

Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a line... I like to find out where the line might be and then cross it deliberately, and then make the audience happy about crossing the line with me.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

The funnier the comic, the truer the things they are saying.

Comedy is a weird but very beautiful thing. Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition. Because if you can laugh, you can get by. You can survive when things are bad if you have a sense of humor.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Comedy is a weird but very beautiful thing. Even though it seems foolish and silly and crazy, comedy has the most to say about the human condition. Because if you can laugh, you can get by. You can survive when things are bad when you have a sense of humor.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

Comedy is the closest thing to justice. If you're funny, you survive; if you're not, you don't.

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.