Comedy Quotes · Page 211

“In America, the least amusing people are its professional entertainers.”

— Neil Postman

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

— Ari Graynor

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

— Arlen Specter

Keep making me laugh. Lets go get high. The road is long, we carry on. Try to have fun in the meantime.

— Lana Del Rey

Nobody sets out to offend or shock for the sake of shocking. You set out to get laughs.

— Seth MacFarlane

I always loved comedy, but it never seemed like something that I could do professionally.

— Anthony Jeselnik

People get into stand-up comedy by and large because they're smart and they have a perspective.

— Dana Gould

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

— George Orwell

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

— Stephen Dorff

If I was fat and had a strong regional accent and was a bloke, I'd be a stand-up. Because I think I'm…

— Katie Hopkins

It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We…

— Eric Idle

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story…

— Steven Moffat

A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep…

— Samuel Butler

You smile, the world smiles with you, you laugh the world Laughs with you, you talk the world talks with you, you…

— Akila Sultana

For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.

— Megan Ganz

I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from…

— Bar Paly

I was looking to do a comedy and found a group of guys that were really supportive of my interests in it,…

— Seth Rogen

All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't…

— Jennifer Coolidge

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a…

— David Foster Wallace

Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the…

— Bradley Cooper

Comedy is very disarming. It's a way to talk about things and still be light-hearted. And when it's done really well, you…

— Hasan Minhaj

“When I was in eighth grade, I used a self-timing camera to take nude pictures of myself in various stages of erection.…

— Dani Alexander

'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that…

— Grace Slick

I stopped being interested in improvisation, and I continue to not be that interested in it. Comedians can do it on a…

— Greta Gerwig

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

— Paul Rust

Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.

— Katherine Ryan

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

— Bill Watterson

I started a joke, which started the whole world crying. But I didn't see that the joke was on me.

— The Bee Gees

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

— Ed Wynn

When Someone laughs too much, Even on stupid things, Be sure that person is Sad deep inside...

— Anonymous

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

— Thomas Middleditch

Web will have space for comedy just as films and TV.

— Kiku Sharda

Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue.

— Adam Sandler

Everytime you find some humour in a difficult situation, you win.

— Ritu Ghatourey

With all comedy, you try to ground it in credibility and reality.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

— Nelson Mandela

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

— Lewis Black

Humour is many things, but mostly it's a coping mechanism.

— Lucy Beaumont

I'm never worried about a joke being 'too provocative.' There's no such thing.

— Matt Rife

The audience always looks for a change. After a spate of action, and romance, now they want to laugh.

— Kovai Sarala