“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
Mel Brooks

“It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
Jack Lemmon

“In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.”
Charlton Hesto

“No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.”
Harold Ramis

“I love doing comedy, and I don't get a chance to much. I get to play lots of serious people and killers.”
William Sadler