Comedy Quotes · Page 194

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

— Norman Jewison

If anything had happened to Bob, I wouldn't have carried on. Me and Bob are a comedy unit.

— Vic Reeves

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

— Katey Sagal

“I think there is a difference between comic essays and war reporting, and people can tell that.”

— David Sedaris

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

— Josh Billings

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

— George Carlin

When I started doing standup, it was the first time I felt comfortable with myself. I think people I went to school…

— Taylor Tomlinson

Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be…

— Anthony Jeselnik

The problem is that comedy is very tiring. It exhausts the hell out of me. Serious role is not tiring. Comedy is…

— Arshad Warsi

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

— Shahrukh Khan

Because of my disability I do find that people can be a bit uncomfortable around me, so I've always had one-liners and…

— Rosie Jones

In comedy, you see yourself as a newcomer and then you realize you've been doing it for 18, 20 years, which is ridiculous.

— Noel Fielding

Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as…

— Alexandra Petri

“When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that’s…

— Maya Angelou

I always wanted to be a comedian, even when I was a little kid. I had a funny father who was in…

— Bill Maher

So my mum bought a jacuzzi, and I was in there along with my father and my sister, when my mother decided…

— Russell Howard

Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old…

— Danny Glover

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although…

— Anne Reid

Somehow that doesn't feel like a natural human thing to do, to go to those dark places, you have to kind of…

— John C. Reilly

“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go…

— Eudora Welty

I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he…

— Leigh Whannell

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Laughter is God's hand on the shoulder of a troubled world.

— Anonymous

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

— Dan Crenshaw

“Sometimes I look at my laughter lines and wonder what on earth could have been that funny.”

— Mark Lamprell

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

— Anonymous

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I wanted to do a film which was in the not-so-serious zone and wanted to try comedy.

— Akshara Haasan

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

— Denis Norden

Like, if you see my show, my jokes are much longer and they're just like, I'm going with the vibe.

— Josh Blue

“If laughter is one of the best medicines in life...laughing at yourself is a conducive pill.”

— Timothy Pina

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

— Chris O'Dowd

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh

— Anonymous

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

— David Sedaris

“I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.”

— Randy Kagan

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

— Thomas Middleditch

“If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.”

— Moffat Machingura

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

— Jill Bennett