Comedy Quotes · Page 149

That awkward moment when you're getting yelled at, and you try you're hardest not to burst out laughing

— Anonymous

I'm a comedian because I want people to like me. That's really why all comedians are comedians.

— Tim Minchin

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

— Horace Walpole

A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called

— Menander Of Athens

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

— Joseph Barbera

I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

— J. B. Smoove

There is a close relationship between the ha-ha of humor and the aha! of discovery.

— Roger Von Oech

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

— Eric Drooker

I recently went to the hardware store and I bought some used paint... it was in a shape of a house. I…

— Steven Wright

And if you can offer an explanation as to why it doesn't work then you've got to the whole root of comedy.

— Denis Norden

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to…

— Tracey Ullman

I love romantic comedies. When I am at home, and if I want to watch something, I would probably watch a romantic…

— Shruti Haasan

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

— Jerry Stiller

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my…

— Riki Lindhome

I think for a heroine to do comedy and action and also be glamorous is a big thing. That's why 'Supreme' will…

— Raashi Khanna

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want…

— Boy George

How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like…

— Hilaire Belloc

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body…

— David Levithan

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can…

— Barry Hannah

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about…

— Jim Rash

The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have…

— Bill Bailey

I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in…

— John Gimlette

As a comedian, you want people to like you. That's part of why you're there in the first place: You have this…

— Mike Birbiglia

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

— Aristotle

“People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.”

— Amit Kalantri

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

— Frank A. Clark

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

— Frank Dane

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

— Bo Burnham

I heard NASA wanted to invade your thigh gap. There was a lot of space between them thighs

— Ramandeep Singh

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

— Buddy Hackett

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

— Josh Billings

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

— Sandra Bullock

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

— Keegan-Michael Key

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

— Eric Morecambe

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

— Ray Stevenson

“Laughter paves the way for many things. It's one way to build intimacy between”

— Berkun, Scott

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

— Sir Fulke Greville