Comedy Quotes · Page 175

My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.

— Ronny Chieng

“I really don’t get this whole oranges thing. It’s like, does he want to eat them or go out with them?”

— Hillary DePiano

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

— Martin Freeman

Three blokes go into a pub. Something happens. The outcome was hilarious!!

— Bill Bailey

I grew up in a household where we watched a lot of comedy. It's just something I've always enjoyed.

— DeMarcus Cousins

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

— Zach Cregger

Witty and mean is easy - but fond and funny is hard.

— Steven Moffat

Seeing the funny side of life is useful, and I've always had a sense of humour.

— Henry Allingham

To me comedy is like being a magician, once they know the rabbit is coming out of the hat they won't care.

— John Bishop

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual

— Denis Leary

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups.…

— Bob Newhart

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.

— Criss Jami

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know…

— Betty White

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

— Stephen Leacock

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

— Malcolm X

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

— William Alfred Quayle

Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our…

— Tim Heidecker

“This particular event had been somewhat more raucous than usual as Derek Jameson had just lost an arm wrestle with Ann Diamond.…

— St. John Morris

A genuine sense of humor is having a light touch: not beating reality into the ground but appreciating reality with a light…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Not everybody should be laughing at everything at the same time. That's not even natural. My thing is to feel natural, because…

— Patrice O'Neal

There are some actors who have an interest in comedy but they can't say this openly. They do feel insecure about the…

— Johnny Lever

“Humor won’t save you; it doesn’t really do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there…

— Michel Houellebecq

People don't understand how much time and work it takes to make somebody laugh, and how hard it is to write a…

— Marlon Wayans

You’re so hilarious. You know, if this whole Daimon-slaying gig doesn’t work out for you, you should really consider being a comedian.…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

— Julia Roberts

I would never have considered becoming a comedian when I was a student.

— Tim Key

I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.

— Evangeline Lilly

“If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

People don't want to laugh at physically attractive people.

— Matt Rife

While there are different genres of comedy, I am for family entertainment.

— Javed Jaffrey

I didn't really discover that I had a knack for comedy until I landed 'Married w/ Children.'

— David Faustino

I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.

— Varun Grover

This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

— Vicki Lawrence

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

— Stephen Mangan

I love making people laugh. I just happened to do it dressed as a woman.

— Divine

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

— Tracy Morgan

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

— Josh Hutcherson

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

— Dave Foley

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

— Brad Garrett