"Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
More Steve Martin quotes
"What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
"I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
"I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success....
"...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
"Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
"Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.