Comedy Quotes · Page 173

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

— David Simon

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

— Jim Gaffigan

“I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age”

— Adrianne Ambrose

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

— Zooey Deschanel

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

— Kenan Thompson

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

— Allen Klein

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

— Thomas Flatman

You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.

— Ram Charan

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of…

— Will Poulter

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't…

— Al Franken

I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever…

— Adam McKay

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned…

— Victor Hugo

Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so…

— Andy Kindler

It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a…

— Julie Delpy

“I’ll steal bodies, not to be Corporal Corpse, but to have access to a never-ending supply of laughter still left over in…

— Jarod Kintz

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

In fact, I get angry when people laugh at me. I go to the airport and the ground hostess starts laughing at…

— Johnny Lever

I have become a giant fan of the testing process, especially with a comedy. I mean, they tell you what's funny. It's…

— Seth Rogen

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?…

— Martin McDonagh

There's a big thing right now with people using stand-up as a scapegoat. People think comedians have the power to change someone…

— Bill Burr

I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach…

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up.…

— Norm MacDonald

“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. It is correct to say that humor was stamped…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sure, theories of humor discern a few broad invariants: incongruity, misattribution, etc. But whereas I might find a blind date gone horribly…

— Paul Di Filippo

I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

— Russell Howard

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

— Yakov Smirnoff

“You could not believe what one sigh articulates. What one laugh creates.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

— James Thurber

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

— Muhammad Ali

“I decide to release myself the only way I can imagine: I pee my pants.”

— Phil Torcivia

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

— Antonio Porchia

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

— Amy Poehler

When people see me in movies, they think it is easy to say punch-lines and make them laugh.

— Binnu Dhillon

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

— E. B. White

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

— John Witherspoon

To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.

— Kyle Gass

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

— Kevin Eubanks

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

— Rachael Harris

“Fortunately, I find that if a situation is funny or risible enough, I tend to bleed less profusely.”

— J.D. Salinger

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

— Jonathan Krisel