There’s only one true test of a comedy, and that’s outright laughter. I don’t care how beautiful the lighting is, how superlative the script is, how wonderful the performances are. If you’re making a comedy and the audience isn’t falling down, holding their bellies, screaming with laughter, you’ve probably got a failure. First laughter and then everything else.

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

There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace.

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.

Being funny has not that much to do with what a great comedy act is about. A great comedy act is a machine that's built. Being funny is the fuel, but you gotta have a whole machine to burn it, and that's the act.

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

He made one laugh sometimes by speaking the truth, but this is a form of humour which gains its force only by its unusualness; it would cease to amuse if it were commonly practised.

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

A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

Satire to be good must be unfair and single-minded. To be backed by intense anger is good — though absolutely not necessary.