Comedy Quotes · Page 167

I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time.

— Larry Wilmore

I'd heard comedians working MySpace into their routines and giving out their URLs as early as 2004.

— Tom Anderson

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

— Maya Angelou

My friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts.

— Demetri Martin

Mom always said to laugh at my mistakes so pardon me if I laugh in your face.

— Anonymous

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

— Robert Harling

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

— Ken Kesey

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

— Greg Behrendt

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes…

— Manohla Dargis

Sometimes, you just get in this mentality of 'Fuck you, this is funny.' If you don't think so, you're the asshole.

— Seth Rogen

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema…

— Pamela Yates

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy.…

— Joan Rivers

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's…

— Alexei Sayle

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

— Davy Jones

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without…

— Justin Simien

If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny…

— Michael McIntyre

Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find…

— Tom Shales

A lot of comedies are based on the reaction shot. You have one person doing something stupid and one person is generally…

— Richard Ayoade

Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other…

— Sylvia Plath

“You know what goes on in this world. They don't understand. They don't see that long after their laughter subsides, in search…

— Jhonen Vásquez

I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always…

— Alexander Payne

I did an Off-Broadway show that was a comedy written by Ann Meara. We were like a family, and we did that…

— Lance Reddick

Instead of improvisers who want to be funny by themselves, we aim to try and make the scene itself as funny as…

— Matt Besser

Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with…

— Gabriel Iglesias

“The basic formula for drama is setup, buildup, payoff—just like a joke.”

— Anne Lamott

I wouldn't want my comedy show to hurt anybody. I'm not Donald Trump.

— Ralphie May

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

— Anonymous

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

— Louis C. K

I'm just funny enough as a comedian to know I'm not good enough to be a comedian.

— John Popper

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

— John Cusack

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

— Russell Simmons

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama,

— Sharon Gless

I think comedians see themselves as people among people.

— Michael Showalter

Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, 'Oh dear?'

— Bradley Walsh

“Sometimes it's the hands that take life too seriously that tickle us to no end.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

People tend to feel that if you're a comedian, you can't act.

— David Jason

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

— Betty White

“If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.”

— Michaela Haze

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

— Sam Ervin

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

— Donald Glover