Comedy Quotes · Page 162

“Sure, if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.”

— Kiera Cass

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

— Lisa Lutz

I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.

— Hannibal Buress

All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.

— Louie Anderson

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

— Chuck Jones

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

— Michael McKean

Putting any situation through our comedy lens always goes on in our heads.

— Sal Vulcano

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

— Plato

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to…

— Carrie Brownstein

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another…

— Pat Paulsen

For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do…

— Camille Henrot

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

— Michael Caine

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want…

— Katherine Parkinson

In the beginning of my career, all I did was drama, and I couldn't get arrested doing comedy; nobody would hire me!

— Tisha Campbell-Martin

I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make…

— Taylor Lautner

I just really remember the feeling of being a younger comedian who was kind of an outlier for being experimental and weird…

— Chris Gethard

“Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if…

— Andrew Lang

I wasn't making fun of my father in-law's religion. And even if I was so what, it's a comedy. Religion should be…

— Larry David

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians,…

— Rita Rudner

I was like, "This is a new thing that the gay people have decided? That's the gayest thing I've ever heard in…

— Joe Rogan

I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed -…

— Dana Schutz

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed…

— Robert Gottlieb

I have done many comedy films. Success of films like 'Partner,' 'Singh is Kinng' gets you to a very wide audience reach.…

— Katrina Kaif

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive…

— Mark Leyner

A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him.

— Vivek

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

— Radha Mitchell

Laughing is the best medicine. But laughing for no reason, you need medicine

— Anonymous

“Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.”

— Saru Singhal

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

— John Madden

Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.

— Tig Notaro

The thing I wanted more than anything was to make a career of standup - and I have.

— Andrew Santino

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

— Dee Wallace

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

— Katherine Mansfield

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

— Gene Wilder

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

— Buddy Hackett

I have a bad habit of laughing at inappropriate moments

— Bianca Knoechel

I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.

— Phil Dunster

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

— Carlos Ponce

I love that point when you're so tired that everything is funny.

— Ramandeep Singh

The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.

— Joel McHale