"In the past you can be funny even though you are the principal. In the present, mishaps are always funnier if they happen to someone else."
(Chuck Jones)

"Jokes are grievances."
(Marshall McLuhan)

"There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan."
(Joel McCrea, Sullivan's Travels)

"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
(Buster Keaton)

"Well of course, winning is great, but it's not funny. And there are no happy endings in my stories because happiness, too, isn't funny."
(Charles Schultz, on why Charlie Brown never won anything in Peanuts)