A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy Duck is to a Buck Rogers story what John McEnroe was to tennis. Personality. That is the key, the drum, the fife. Forget the plot.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.