Comedy Quotes

Humanity is a comic role.

— Novalis

He who laughs…lasts.

— Anonymous

I'm actually hilarious.

— Aldous Harding

I told jokes badly.

— Don Rickles

I'm not very funny!

— Kimbra

I'm not a comedian.

— Anonymous

“VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!”

— Jonathan Larson

I am a very funny guy.

— Riyad Mahrez

Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean.

— Jeff Ross

Between funny and witty Falls the shadow

— Stephen Fry

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

— David E. Kelley

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. Rohypnol

— Jimmy Carr

I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh.

— Dreama Walker

I REFUSE TO BE AMUSED BY SOMETHING THAT AINT RIGHT

— LEONARD PAUL ROSE

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

— Brad Garrett

I have the curse of thinking funny!

— Adam West

“Friendships founded on laughter are always fortuitous.”

— Stephen King

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

I'm not hurting anybody. Comedy's all about innuendo. I'm putting it out there just like anybody else.

— Jeff Ross

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

— Henry Rollins

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

— Jim Carrey

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

— Jack Quaid

Sometimes I yell at my cancer cells, sometimes I make myself laugh.

— Valerie Harper

“He knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side of things.”

— Ken Kesey

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I…

— Olivia Williams

Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to…

— Barney Frank

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending…

— Michael Showalter

When I was doing stand-up, there were a lot of things I talked about that seemed very silly but were therapeutic.

— Alex Borstein

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

— Mary Astor

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with…

— Jim Jefferies

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

— Frederick Buechner

It is hard to keep a straight face during comedy scenes. It's considered really bad form to laugh at someone else because…

— Ben Miller

“Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from…

— Esme Ellis

Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound…

— Buddy Hackett

Literally, our show is friendship on display. It's not a written comedy show. It's not a reality show. It's just four friends…

— Joe Gatto

With stand-up you meet almost constant rejection. You put yourself out there with your thoughts and your ideas, and you think they're…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender… all you do is say what the…

— Mitch Hedberg

“It would be so effen great if the whole world laughed more- the whole world. I don't mean the kind of laughing…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the…

— Demetri Martin

“I loved Monty Python for the wordplay--this sense that you didn’t have to squash your intelligence to be funny. In fact, you…

— George Saunders