Comedy Quotes · Page 205

Friends are not perfect, sometimes they have funny ways, always laugh with them and not at them.

— Vikrant Parsai

Laughter is timeless imagination hasn't age and are dreams are forever.

— Simpleman

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

— Andy Serkis

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

— Peter J. Carroll

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed... into my mouth.

— Louis C. K

I want to take up anything that excites me. It can be a drama, action or a comedy.

— Prateik Babbar

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

— Kin Hubbard

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it…

— Bo Burnham

It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so…

— James Lapine

“Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.”

— John Bellairs

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is…

— Neal Brennan

“if you keep looking for what’s wrong you might just miss the very thing that’s right. I want it to be about…

— John Williams

I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One…

— Steve Martin

“And how could he know the character of the country? By finding out the sense of humor of the country. For if…

— Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a…

— Paul Feig

Thank you people that are laughing with your hand away from your mouth. That joke is clearly not for everyone, but I…

— Daniel Tosh

If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards…

— Brad Williams

If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try…

— Andrew Greeley

I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of…

— Eugene Chadbourne

In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I…

— Thomas Middleditch

“ASIO turned up on Hamza's doorstep a year ago, after he and his mate, both in their mid-twenties, returned from Yemen. They…

— John Safran

The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could…

— Woody Allen

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments…

— Howard Pyle

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

— Fred Armisen

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

— Chrissy Metz

Standup is essentially part of your personality with the volume turned up.

— Tom Segura

Comedy is one of my favorites, but I also want to get into drama and sci-fi.

— Marsai Martin

We love super-silly moments, funny moments, serious moments, weird moments.

— Riki Lindhome

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

— Bernie Mac

One day we'll all look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.

— Ash Sweeney

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

— David Seabury

I don't ever want to police people's laughter. People laugh for all different kinds of reasons.

— Cord Jefferson

Life is a comedy for Rich people and tragedy for the Poor people.

— RMKATTA

Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.

— Don Rickles

I wonder if, as a society, we will ever be able to call someone a jive tofurkey.

— Demetri Martin

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

— Katherine Applegate

I think humor and protest can be subtle, instead of loud and going to the level of violence.

— Kiku Sharda

To entertain looks very flippant, but it is the hardest thing in the world.

— Kirron Kher

Being Jewish in West L.A., my religion was watching comedy. That felt like God to me.

— Molly Gordon