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It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

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.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time.

I also want to return to doing stand-up. I've become frightened of live audiences. This is a really telling sign that I need to go back on the comedy circuit again.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.