Comedy Quotes · Page 195

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

— Bill Burr

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

— Sir Fulke Greville

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

— Steve Carell

“Masked by a pair of pink cotton panties, the man looks like some sort of deranged bank robber.”

— Dave Lundy

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

— Michael Keaton

“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”

— William Powers

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate…

— Tom Shales

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

— W. Somerset Maugham

I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want…

— Hannibal Buress

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.

— Eric Kripke

There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.

— Lorne Michaels

In a theatrical experience, creating a moment is somewhat easy; you can have a callback to a previous film, and if 10…

— Vignesh Shivan

When I started with the comedy me and my wife never thought that it would pay the mortgage. It was just something…

— Lee Evans

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

— Dana Carvey

Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media…

— Aaron Belz

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a challenge. When you do things that are comedy, you're having to look at the funnier side of life. Often…

— Corbin Bernsen

I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of…

— Jo Brand

“Never ever make a joke to the police, they have no sense of humour. Never make a political joke, it will always…

— Dick Francis

There's a guy on YouTube ... who just re-voices Donald Trump. He does a thing called Sassy Trump which is just to…

— Armando Iannucci

“I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I…

— Dean Koontz

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

— Alison Pill

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

— Michael J. Fox

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

— Seth MacFarlane

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

— Ken Kesey

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

— George Carlin

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

— Jennifer Aniston

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

— Abraham Lincoln

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

— Manuel Puig

“Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

— Stephen Chbosky

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

— Nikolai Gogol

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

— Paul Merton

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

— Joe Rogan

Everybody's got a serious side and everybody's got a fun side.

— Donovan McNabb

The most irritating people are those without a sense of humor, amirite?

— Anonymous

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.

— Anonymous