Comedy Quotes · Page 136

[Hillary Clinton] and I are fine. Are we going to be besties for the rest of our lives? No.

— Claire McCaskill

“Laughter can be a form of forgiveness—a gift, cathartic.”

— Briar Kit Esme

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

— Clarence Darrow

You know when Jerry Ford gets the best joke, you know you're in trouble.

— Mark Russell

Or you wanna be a muthafuckin funny guy? Don't make me break your Kevin Hart heart boy.

— Drake

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

— James Thurber

Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

— Mac Barnett

Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.

— Izabella Scorupco

My father tried to discourage me from going into comedy, mainly because he felt like it wasn't promising. It was pie in…

— Craig Robinson

“My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in…

— John Green

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

— Jenna Elfman

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you…

— Steve Martin

“There are many ways to kill someone. I prefer laughter, and doing it slowly, over the course of 70 years or so.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'd just like to retire quietly with dignity, secure in the knowledge that no more comedies will ever be made now that…

— Megan Mullally

The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny…

— Michelle Visage

Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along…

— Haley Joel Osment

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and…

— Bill Burr

My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him…

— Damon Wayans, Jr

Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something…

— Dan Mintz

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until…

— Linda Ellerbee

“A smaller rocket cut across the sky, trailing smoke. It exploded in a red heart. "Awwwww!" said the crowd. "Upside down," said…

— Jennifer Echols

I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused…

— Nicholas Stoller

If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to…

— Jack Bruce

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American…

— Arnold Aronson

I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.

— Bo Burnham

I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old.

— Derek Waters

I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal.

— Alan Cumming

Aspirin is perfectly legal, but if you take 13 of them motherf***ers, it'll be your last headache.

— Katt Williams

Animal rights is a serious subject, but I do my best to find humor where I can.

— Karen Dawn

“I laugh everything off but inside I just remember it all and go over and over and over it.”

— Rae Earl

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.

— Emo Philips

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

— Saint John Chrysostom

I can still advocate for a marginalized community, while also thinking dog humping is really funny.

— Patti Harrison

I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

— Sally Hawkins

The greatest thing about stand-up is that it is the opposite of making a film.

— Brett Goldstein

I am trying to learn various kinds of genres within comedy.

— Sunil Grover

“Em and I don't giggle but we sort of snort, so we snorted.”

— Gail Giles

Cause they don't smile or smell like you. No they don't make me laugh or even cook like you.

— Miguel Jontel

I always laugh when I read about sexism cases in the newspaper.

— Karren Brady

“To laugh is to dare, because laughter dares fate and sorrow and the weight of all injustices.”

— Sara Douglass