Jim Carrey: And the Golden Globe goes to..."Elf"! Oh, wait. That wasn't nominated this year!
Meryl Streep: I just realized you see completely through my dress. So, that's why I'm standing with my legs together.
Meryl Streep: I'd like to thank the people at Universal, it's just that there are so many people there who want to take credit for me that I woudln't know where to start
Bill Murray: ...and I'd also like to thank my personal hair stylist, who, for 14 years, has been trying to destroy my natural good looks.
Danny DeVito: Thank you, thank you. It's really good to see a couple of you.
Danny DeVito: I've known Michael Douglas longer than some men's wives have been alive
Peter Jackson: I didn't realize that seven years in this movie would turn me into a hobbit.
Peter Jackson: I guess I didn't realize that seven years in this movie would turn me into a hobbit.
Meryl Streep: And I'd also like to thank my agent, because Tim Robbins forgot to thank his agent.
Diane Keaton: Playing a woman to love at 57 is like trying to reach a star with a step ladder.
Jack Nicholson: I don't know whether to be happy or ashamed, because I thought we'd made a comedy.
Jack Nicholson: I don't know whether to be happy or ashamed, because I thought we'd made a comedy.
Jack Nicholson: I don't know whether to be happy or ashamed, because I thought we'd made a comedy.
Comedy (from the Greek: κωμῳδία, kōmōidía), as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in Ancient Greece. In the Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters. The theatrical genre can be simply described as a dramatic performance which pits two societies against each other in an amusing agon or conflict. Northrop Frye famously depicted these two opposing sides as a "Society of Youth" and a "Society of the Old", but this dichotomy is seldom described as an entirely satisfactory explanation. A later view characterizes the essential agon of comedy as a struggle between a relatively powerless youth and the societal conventions that pose obstacles to his hopes; in this sense, the youth is understood to be constrained by his lack of social authority, and is left with little choice but to take recourse to ruses which engender very dramatic irony which provokes laughter.