Comedy Quotes · Page 207

I like to do stand-up for people who live real life.

— Tracy Morgan

I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I laugh at my own jokes. I'm funny. Kiss my ass so what.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Then they both laughed, because it was ludicrous to think that unicorns could be horrible in any way.”

— Jessica Day George

There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.

— Adam McKay

I wanted to be funny. And I'm always acknowledged for my pranks and jokes nowadays.

— Steve Wozniak

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

— Sam Kinison

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

— Tracy Morgan

Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical.

— Jessica Williams

I think it's the same as comedy. They're just highly entertaining. They take you on a ride. They tap into your base…

— Elizabeth Banks

You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason…

— Carlos Mencia

'Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies' is a comedy. It was fun. You just don't take it serious. You just go there, get your…

— Roddy Piper

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all…

— Joseph Addison

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

— Gloria Steinem

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually…

— David Ives

“If your dick has more frequent flyer miles than you do, you’re not a lover—you’re a disease with a passport.”

— Brad Deep

Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with…

— Zach Braff

I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and…

— David Letterman

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .…

— Neil Postman

Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I…

— Bill Bailey

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness…

— Mark Haddon

If people want to see something, I am more than happy to do it. Then I know everybody likes comedy. I do…

— Arshad Warsi

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness…

— George Meredith

“William James said, ‘We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.”

— Robin S. Sharma

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

— Eddie Izzard

If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.

— Roger Moore

Comedy kind of terrifies me. I feel pretty intimidated.

— Lucy Boynton

Working with Lucille Ball was just a master class in how to do comedy.

— Tim Matheson

My areas of expertise are acting, comedy, radio jockeying.

— Aparshakti Khurana

The public knows me through my life, which is not comical. But I feel very at home in comedy.

— Dana Reeve

As a comedian, you see all parts of the country because you play there.

— W. Kamau Bell

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

— Al Yankovic

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

— Peter Steele

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel

“You might as well laugh at yourself, everyone else is.”

— BJ Neblett

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

— Harland Williams

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

— Eddie Izzard

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

— Christopher Guest

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

— Lord Chesterfield