Comedy Quotes · Page 137

Comic timing is something you are either born with or do not have.

— Deepika Padukone

People with a sense of humor are so much easier to talk to.

— Jean Norvy's

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.

— Laura Wade

“You've got no sense of humor." "I'm going to laugh really hard after I kick your ass.”

— J.D. Robb

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

— Henry Rollins

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

— Larry David

My ability to make people laugh is absolutely something my entire psyche rests upon.

— CMAT

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

— Diane Lane

People are allowed to like different things than you. People are allowed to laugh at different things than you.

— Matt Rife

There's a lot of different parts to me, so it makes total sense to me that I would do a big TV…

— Jenny Slate

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that…

— Richard Russo

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as…

— John F. Kennedy

“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The…

— G.K. Chesterton

It was just really fun doing 'Step Brothers,' and then 'Party Down' came a year later. I was having so much fun.…

— Adam Scott

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's…

— Seth Rogen

I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire.

— Josh Widdicombe

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the…

— Rajneesh

A lot of people end up being comedians because, well really, they're just Chandler Bing at heart. We mask our emotions with…

— Chris McCausland

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what…

— Rachel Cusk

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to…

— Giorgos Seferis

The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic…

— Frank Partnoy

“Expand Your Repertoire . . . Professional humorists and comedians, like Jeanie Robertson, maintain joke files filled with assorted topics, anecdotes, and…

— Susan C. Young

Some of the most fun I've ever had has been filming 'Bert the Conqueror.' As a stand-up comedian, I love putting this…

— Bert Kreischer

“Everything about the man spoke of virility--his quick reaction, his calm control now that danger had passed. And she'd never seen a…

— Stephanie Bond

Laughter is the best medicine. But if you're laughing without any reason, you need medicine.

— Anonymous

Every time you are able to find some humor in a difficult situation,

— Ritu Ghatourey

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

— Lena Dunham

“Laughter was a silk that would soften even the roughest moments.”

— Tahereh Mafi

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

— Amanda Seyfried

As a comic, you are trying to please people in some way - to make them laugh.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

— Stephan Pastis

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

— Rita Rudner

Life is a joke, thats why when you have fun you are happy, so dont take everything too serious.

— Blaze Olamiday

From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.

— M. S. Narayana

This is what the establishment is scared of: Of joy, the sense of humour, of irony.

— Beppe Grillo

We're like a rogue satellite circling the comedy universe.

— Kyle Gass

“That was laughter-a natural eruption of good humor that occurs when people are amused.”

— Carla Kelly

“You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little . . . you begin to grieve.”

— Samuel Beckett

I'ts better 2 laugh w/o a reas0n... than to cry 2 a worthless person... </3

— Mia Makitsu

It is only the dogmatic, and the humorless, that don't succumb to my charm.

— Vermin Supreme