Comedy Quotes · Page 210

I think Chicago's kind of a comedy hub, and I think it always has been.

— Andrew Santino

Sometimes you're so close to something, or it's still so new that you can't find humor in it yet.

— Matt Rife

A little bit of humor can push a very important agenda.

— Peaches

A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.

— Jackie Mason

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

— Bruce Nash

“You say very funny things. I am sorry I can't say funny things back. This is not a funny time for me.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

— Leigh Hunt

The bulk of my work is comedy and I wanted to use the gaming world as a vehicle to deliver comedy.

— Zoe Quinn

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is…

— Robin Morgan

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

— Tiffany Haddish

In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is…

— Anonymous

People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but…

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

— Jo Koy

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny…

— Philip K. Dick

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and…

— Sophocles

One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a…

— Sam Rockwell

Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I…

— Ronald Reagan

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When…

— Jennifer Lopez

I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle…

— Brian Regan

There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well,…

— Aisling Bea

I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having…

— Matt Nix

“I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin'…

— Clint Eastwood

Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more…

— Semir Zeki

I did a few mainstream clubs in Birmingham when I started out. Racist comedy was absolutely the norm. Every act was doing…

— Frank Skinner

If you go to Bed Bath & Beyond without a coupon, people will wonder if you're OK.

— John Pinette

I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

— Jim Gaffigan

If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else.

— Carlos Mencia

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

— Mason Cooley

“...life is one big jest at the expense of humanity.”

— Petina Gappah

“what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?”

— Jim Thompson

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

— Judy Gold

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

— Jane Austen

The ability to be funny is pretty widespread in the population.

— Robert Mankoff

Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.

— Thomas Jefferson

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

— Bo Burnham

Laughter is the only currency I've really ever known. Ever since I was a boy.

— Bob Mortimer

“Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Humor is an absurd answer to a reasonable question.”

— Mark Bell

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

— Trey Parker