Comedy Quotes · Page 197

It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.

— Melina Marchetta

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

— Demetri Martin

Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

— Bible

It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.

— Rick Riordan

I feel it's easier to scare or thrill people than to make them laugh.

— Priyadarshan

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

— Diane Neal

“Why not laugh again, and let your joy be my monument?”

— Stephanie Roberts

I'm just a comedian. That's all I am. If you find me funny, good.

— Alan Carr

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie…

— Sophie Marceau

A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy.

— W. G. Sebald

“Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her…

— Padma Venkatraman

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon…

— Hermann Hesse

The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh,…

— John C. Reilly

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses…

— Natasha Lyonne

I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger…

— Jon Richardson

You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama,…

— Zachary Knighton

I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your…

— Anonymous

I really like doing stand-up, because it gives you an immense amount of freedom. You haven't got anyone telling you what to…

— Sean Lock

I'll be honest with you. Comedy is what I want to see at the movies these days. Life is frickin' hard, man!…

— Reese Witherspoon

I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things…

— Tabitha Suzuma

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can't get in every idea I want on the show no…

— Mindy Kaling

What people actually think: ha = you. suck. haha = not that funny. hahaha = really funny actually. hahahaha = funniest. thing.…

— Lala

One of the things that is always difficult about a collaboration is that you don't necessarily find the same thing funny. And…

— Michael Showalter

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

— Steve Martin

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

— James Grippando

Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

— Steve Martin

“Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.”

— Mort Walker

“Sometimes, you have to let emotions leave your heart. Laugh it all off, or it’ll consume you.”

— Claudia Y. Burgoa

“You two have just reached the level of annoyingly cute.”

— Jamie McGuire

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

— Anonymous

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If men could read minds, They will laughing very hard until doesn't have time to being serious

— Anonymous

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

— John Prine

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

— David Rakoff

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

— Herbert Gardner

Nothing better than a good laugh and giggling over a whole bunch of nothing.

— Yolanda Hadid

As I see it, there's mainstream comedy - and then there's me, out in the badlands.

— Rik Mayall

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

— Shel Silverstein

“Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich