Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious
– Peter Ustinov
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- A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. – Gary D Schmidt
- If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done. – Peter Ustinov
- Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well. – Peter Ustinov
- If you want to get results in your life try with comedy… first pressure then apply comedy. Always it shallow the shitty life-pressure! – Deyth Banger
- Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions; comedy should always leave you different than when it found you. – Duckman Jason Alexander
- Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments. – Glen Duncan
- Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you’re the one getting slapped with the stick. – Carroll Bryant
- I don’t write comedy. I write drama that’s funny. – Gregor Collins
- Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde
- Serious art is born from serious play. – Julia Cameron
- All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children…. – Robertson Davies
- Sin is serious-”so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Christ. – Billy Graham
- Language is a serious weapon in shining and sharing Truth. It is also a serious weapon used in its distortion. – Suzy Kassem
- Sometimes When You Are Serious, People Thought You Were Joking, But Sometimes When You Are Joking, People Thought You Were Serious – Harry Toh Jun Shen
- If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals! – Andrew Barrett
- Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
- Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately. – Anne Frank
- Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
- He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins. – Paula McLain
- It’s sometimes funny to watch some people doing something the wrong way but doing it confidently. Even more funny, they succeeded. – Toba Beta
- I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. – Calvin – Bill Watterson
- I don’t give sick days if you’re playing in the snow.- He’s being funny, or trying to be funny. I can never tell which. – Zoe Cruz
- It’d be funny if one of them was called Gavin. Funny but irrelevant. – John Marsden
- I m not funny, really m not !!! I just tell people the truth, and then they start laughing and say haha you are funny…but seriously m not!!! – shashankbisht
- A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you’re dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. -“ Lloyd Hand – David Pietrusza
- Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, even if they are not funny, naturists don’t, no matter how funny they are. – Roy Station
- Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting. – Peter Allen
- On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations. – Peter Heg
- Tragedy is actually untimely comedy – Adhish Mazumder
- Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. – Mindy Greenstein
- Comedy strikes here… just to reduce pressure and depression. – Deyth Banger
- Everything is ‘just a story’. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it’s just a story. What matters is making sure it’s heard. – Mira Grant
- Comedy writers don’t join fraternities.”Don’t pigeon hole me, Georgie, I’m infinite. – Rainbow Rowell
- Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is – Ludwig van Beethoven
- Comedy was invented to make people forget,That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies. – Cody Edward Lee Miller
- The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. – Debasish Mridha
- Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? – Orson Scott Card
- … Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder. – James Agee
- Black Mage: I was joking.Red Mage: OH. See, I was confused by the total lack of comedy. – Brian Clevinger