Comedy Quotes · Page 152

I like comedy that's very specific and isn't afraid to lose people through its specificity.

— Josh Gondelman

People with no sense of humor, I feel so bad for them.

— Janelle James

“Urbino laughed. The Contessa, as usual when it came to things Venetian, was probably right.”

— Edward Sklepowich

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

— Paul Reubens

One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

— Chinese Proverbs

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

— Drew Carey

You know, the comedic and horror thing was the key to 'Zombieland,' which is a comedy first.

— Ruben Fleischer

I like to laugh at myself and sometimes I put my foot in my mouth, but I don't mean any harm.

— Sonja Morgan

When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do;…

— Mike Birbiglia

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see…

— Allen Klein

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is…

— Jim Gaffigan

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are…

— Norman Wisdom

Every barbershop has a guy who wrecks shop every time he comes in. He has the whole barbershop laughing. That doesn't mean…

— Charlie Murphy

I'm pretty good at getting over people throwing stuff at me. If you've been doing stand up long enough you know how…

— Chris Rock

I want to keep working really hard at getting better at stand-up and touring, and I can't imagine a time when I…

— Amy Schumer

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will…

— Kanye West

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less…

— Bruno Heller

If you look at the films that I've done generally, you would probably get an idea of what I'm most interested in,…

— Guy Pearce

I saw Hulk Hogan the other day in a parking lot, and I couldn't tell from a distance if it was Hulk…

— Kyle Cease

Growing up, I would use comedy as a kind of defence mechanism - you know, I'm going to call myself a nasty…

— Asim Chaudhry

When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't…

— Steve Coogan

Morvern Callar's' a really weird film, in a sense, where I was trying to experiment with taking things in a different direction,…

— Lynne Ramsay

Humour is often linked to shared experience. Like, a guy gets up and says, Have you noticed public restrooms have really inefficient…

— Bo Burnham

When you meet a new woman who does stand-up, it is instantly like, 'Yes! In the gang'. Because you know the logistics…

— Sara Pascoe

Nothing compares to the stomach ache you get from laughing with your best friends.

— Anonymous

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

— Judd Apatow

Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

— Steve Guttenberg

When I get emotional about something, that's usually when funny comes.

— Ralphie May

“It’s always laughter that can soothe a weary soul and wipe away tears.”

— Tyler Knott

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

— Mark Hoppus

'Monk' planted the seed that a procedural could have character and be quirky and have comedy.

— James Roday

I may never let go of my wrath, my anger, but I will always have the last laugh.

— Corey Taylor

“I like gross generalizations...I also like disgusting specifics!”

— Josh Stern

You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I thought everybody was in on the joke. But I was the joke.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.”

— Clay A. Johnson

I think comedy's often the little and the large, isn't it?

— Eric Idle

I was always fascinated by the stand-up comedy shows from my childhood.

— Tejaswi Madivada

My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.

— Jackie Mason

I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.

— Jay Chandrasekhar