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Your Quotes for 8 June 2005 - Comedy

Jerry Stiller was born at New York City on this day in 1929, and performed for many years as Stiller and Meara. The act included commentary on their home life, the comedy apparently was enough to deal with the stresses of being married for four decades. Joan Alexandra Molinsky was born four years later, also in New York City. She made being bitchy a high art form as Joan Rivers. Scott Adams was born on this day in 1957, but not in the city, he was born at Windham, New York. He got a degree in economics and followed with an MBA, but after seventeen years as a bank teller, computer programmer, financial analyst, product manager, commercial lender, budget manager, strategist, project manager, and pseudo-engineer he turned to cartooning, creating Dilbert and his pointy-haired boss in 1989. Today's quotes are on Comedy, with thanks to those who have helped us through life by creating it.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know laughter if there is no pain to compare it with?
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
     - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs; jolted by every pebble in the road.
     - Henry Ward Beecher, 1813 - 1887

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
     - Jean de La Bruyère, 1645 - 1696

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
     - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
     - James Thurber, 1894 - 1961

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, 1925 - 2001

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