Comedy Quotes · Page 154

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

— Anonymous

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

— Jimmy Carr

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

— Jimmy Durante

I recommend anyone who wants to pursue comedy to go to The Groundlings.

— Mikey Day

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

— Madonna Ciccone

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

— Giacomo Casanova

“When someone makes a Family Circus reference and everyone on the room laughs, I'm in the wrong room.”

— Josh Hanagarne

“Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I…

— Ronnie Apteker

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to…

— Sharon Horgan

If you like comedy, go home and curl up with Leviticus. The writers of The Onion are handed Leviticus on their first…

— Nick Offerman

The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except…

— Phil Hartman

America is where standup comedy was born. It's the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is…

— Gad Elmaleh

Man's inhumanity toward man is astounding, and I'm just talking about the lineup at certain comedy clubs.

— Dov Davidoff

You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.

— Ally Hilfiger

I feel really trapped as a comedian - someone who is supposed to be funny and light, making jokes all the time.…

— Whitney Cummings

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people…

— Jeff Dunham

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it…

— Darren Boyd

I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to…

— Jim Gaffigan

I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art…

— Noel Fielding

Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to…

— Ken Loach

Kathy Burke has been a real inspiration. I think she's brilliant. I like the fact she doesn't care what she looks like…

— Sheridan Smith

In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep…

— Paul F. Tompkins

My style can't be held within a pixel medium. Like, it needs to be performed in a living, breathing space. People need…

— Kristen Schaal

I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.

— Yvonne De Carlo

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

— Charles Edward Montague

I think of myself as more of a comic person. I don't know about a comic actor.

— David Duchovny

Writing humor is not something every single person can do.

— Celia Rivenbark

“My girlfriend and I just had make-up sex. We both wore make-up.”

— Randy Kagan

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

— Jeff Dunham

Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

— Christopher Paolini

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

— Kathy Bates

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

— Herman Melville

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

— Robert Plant

The Stones, I love the Stones. I watch them whenever I can. Fred, Barney.

— Steven Wright

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.

— Will Rogers

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

— Wendy Cope

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

— Danny McBride

As far as comedy goes, I'm endlessly inspired by Jo Firestone.

— Chris Gethard

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

— Chris Rock