I've always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you'd want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn't laugh, you were in trouble!

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that.

If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.