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1 " The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel, "
― Steve Kaplan , The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny
2 " Comedy sees all our flaws, and foibles, and failings, and still doesn't hate us for them. "
3 " The genius of comedy is that it loves humanity without necessarily forgiving it. "
4 " Comedy is the art of telling the truth about what it's like to be human. "
5 " While you can't teach someone to be more talented, you can teach someone to act and write to the best of their ability. "
6 " The tragedy of many people’s lives is that, given a choice between being ‘right’ and having the opportunity to be happy, they invariably choose being ‘right.’ That is the one ultimate satisfaction they allow themselves.” — Nathaniel Branden "
7 " When I started, I used to think that comedy was watching someone do something silly. We later came to realize that comedy was watching someone watch someone do something silly.” — John Cleese "
8 " The Comedy Equation: An ordinary guy or gal struggling against insurmountable odds without many of the required skills and tools with which to win yet never giving up hope. "
9 " There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors. "
10 " Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other, ‘Does this taste funny to you? "
11 " comedy has to tell the truth. "
12 " John Cleese once said that when they started Monty Python, they thought that comedy was the silly bits: “We used to think that comedy was watching someone do something silly . . . we came to realize that comedy was watching somebody watch somebody do something silly.” That’s the basis of the tool of Straight Line/Wavy Line. "
13 " The biggest myth about comedy is that it’s magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is divided into two parts: those who are funny, and those who ain’t. And if you ain’t, well, sorry Charley, that’s all she wrote. I have a simple response to that: Bull. "
14 " I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time.’ So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. "
