Comedy Quotes · Page 199

When people laugh and ask me what I see in you I simply tell them, Everything you don't!..awww..

— Anonymous

“I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh.”

— Jack Vance

I love to make people laugh, and do things that are surprising and different.

— Rachele Brooke Smith

There are a few genres that I am quite sceptical about, for example, horror and comedy.

— Rohit Saraf

If you can't laugh at yourself every once in a while then you aren't allowed to laugh at other people.

— Anonymous

I like dark comedies. That's why I like the Wayans Brothers.

— Zach Galifianakis

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.

— Viktor E. Frankl

When you're with Chris Wylde, there's never not laughter.

— David Anders

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad…

— Roland Joffe

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for…

— Anne Frank

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

— Suzy Kassem

I'm a touring standup comedian so a lot of the time I'm looking for box sets that I can put on my…

— Nish Kumar

To be famous in comedy is unbearably difficult. But I don't care what people know me for as long as they know…

— Andrew Santino

Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.

— Kevin Hart

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and…

— Anonymous

It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason…

— Tom Green

If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because…

— Anne Beatts

It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more…

— Sigourney Weaver

If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy…

— Anthony Jeselnik

To all my soap fans out there, my horror fanatics, comedy lovers, I will tell you this: 'Death Valley' is an action-packed…

— Texas Battle

I don't think I could ever stop doing serious movies and just do comedies, or vice versa, but there is something cool…

— John C. Reilly

If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over…

— Demetri Martin

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We…

— Harriet Hosmer

I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.

— Nell Scovell

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

— Bobby Farrelly

“Why sadness was created? So we could rest from laughing.”

— Nelson M. Lubao

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

— James Boswell

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

— Andrew Eldritch

It is really sad that there's no recognition at the national level for comedy.

— Vivek

“If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.”

— Cameron Conaway

People look upon me primarily as a comedian. I'm trying to get away from that, though I do like comedy.

— Fred MacMurray

Silently but surely I will make sure I have the last laugh when it's all said and done.

— Anonymous

I get to do physical comedy! When do women get to do physical comedy? Very rarely.

— Michaela Watkins

Comedy can be fun no matter what you're playing. It always has the potential to be a blast.

— Ty Burrell

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

— Scott Thompson

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

— Paul F. Tompkins

“Their humor is underdog humor, a put-down of what is more powerful than they.”

— Wallace Stegner

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

— Mason Cooley

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

— Norman Cousins