G. K. Chesterton on Comedy

“Don't you know Sunday? Don't you know that his jokes are always so big and simple that one has never thought of them?”

“The literature of joy is infinitely more difficult, more rare, and more triumphant than the black and white literature of pain.”

“It is not funny that anything else should fall down, only that a man should fall down … Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.”