(30 votes)   I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

Paul Reiser
1957-, American Actor, Comedian, Writer

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(77 votes)   The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(56 votes)   The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

George Jean Nathan
1882-1958, American Critic

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(50 votes)   Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(41 votes)   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
1904-1991, British Novelist

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(29 votes)   Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

Lenny Bruce
1925-1966, American Comedian

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(28 votes)   Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Paul Goodman
1911-1972, American Author, Poet, Critic

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(25 votes)   And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool -- motley's the only wear.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(23 votes)   Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt
1778-1830, British Essayist

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(14 votes)   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 convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(11 votes)   In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

Constance Rourke
1885-1941, American Author

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(10 votes)   I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.''

Ellen DeGeneres

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(5 votes)   The guy has baggy pants, flat feet, the most miserable, bedraggled-looking little bastard you ever saw; makes itchy gestures as though he's got crabs under his arms -- but he's funny.

Sterling Ford

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