Comedy Quotes · Page 170

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

— Jacob August Riis

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

— Lord Byron

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

— Annie Murphy

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

— Jud Tylor

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

— Brad Garrett

“Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.”

— Steven Charles

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

— Terry Pratchett

I don't have a great sense of humor, but I do have a great sense of nonsense.

— Nikhil Saluja

Hard comedy goes for the fences. It's also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don't hit a home run,…

— Bob Crane

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration.

— Rob Reiner

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you…

— Thomas Sowell

A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being…

— Paul Feig

“No, it's the best time for jokes,' said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. 'Jokes remind us that we're alive. And that…

— Mira Grant

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the…

— Eric Ladin

There's always that little bit of tension that happens when you make a joke, especially when there's a language barrier.

— Desi Lydic

You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new…

— Doug Benson

“I've only been to SNL three times, and one time I was there, Chevy and Billy were having a huge screaming fight…

— Anonymous

America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day,…

— Miley Cyrus

“We have built cities that scrape the sky, machines that think and a global network that allows people to yell at each…

— Natalie Kyriacou

Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real.…

— Cameron Boyce

I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to…

— Alan Arkin

“anyone is laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll. like what a lobotomized person's…

— David Levithan

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history…

— Adam Savage

“[he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth”

— Zadie Smith

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

— William Saroyan

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

— Don Rickles

“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.”

— Bob Monkhouse

“Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

— Peter Jennings

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

— Jon Lovett

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.

— Matt Berry

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

— Grete Waitz

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

— Tony Rock

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

— Graham Norton

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

— Ruskin Bond

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

— Jim Gaffigan

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

— Stephen Colbert

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

— Joe Abercrombie