Comedy Quotes · Page 196

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

— Isobelle Carmody

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

— Shelley Berman

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

— Julie Walters

I am very attracted to funny people - I'd go so far as to say I find it hard to trust unfunny…

— Roisin Murphy

What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.

— Denis Diderot

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

— Stephenie Meyer

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

— Al Franken

With comedic news, it's about having a point of view. If you don't have that, you don't have a show.

— Jason Jones

I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you.

— Terry Wogan

The best sketch shows are from a group of tight-knit people who've worked together for a really long time.

— Scott Aukerman

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

— Kevin Rahm

Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise might be seen as…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Don't try to laugh among a group of friends, because one among them will know how much you're crying inside

— Avi ItaLlica

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing…

— Geoff Stults

They Say Laughter Is The Best Medicine, But If You're Laughing For No Particular Reason, You Need Medicine...

— Pacifiersucker

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.

— George M. Cohan

I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they'd learn more about their…

— Mort Sahl

In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic…

— Susan Howe

For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four…

— Rachel Bloom

At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone…

— Kate Micucci

Years of doing comedy and doing improv comedy taught me so many things about pacing, timing, stamina, how to manage physicality -…

— Greta Lee

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure…

— William Saroyan

Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have…

— Artie Lange

I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that…

— Sam Elliott

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I am the illegal alien of commentary. I will do the jokes that no one else will do.

— Ann Coulter

To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.

— Kathy Griffin

“Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.”

— Matthew Fox

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Before Hum Tum,' I had never done comedy. I was scared.

— Kirron Kher

“Humor is just Schadenfreude with a clear conscience”

— Nietzsche

“Tears and Laughter are my two favorite emotions...”

— Ellie Hart

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

— Dean Koontz

I have found that the key to being happy — well, one of the keys, anyway — is to be easily amused,

— Wil Wheaton

To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!

— Edgar Allan Poe

“It’s funny,” Mercy of Kalr said. “You’re what I’ve lost, and I’m what you’ve lost.”

— Ann Leckie

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

— Will Rogers

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

— Henry Cate VII

I've done so many dramas in my life, and people don't even know I came from comedy.

— Kim Basinger

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

— Anne Lamott