Comedy Quotes · Page 218

“laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

— Kay Cannon

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

— Liza Donnelly

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

— Frances McDormand

“A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

— John Slattery

“Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?”

— Gerald Schroeder

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

— Rachel Bloom

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well,…

— Brian Posehn

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the…

— Thomas Middleditch

Humor is not only fun but healthy too! Heart attack is shown to be less likely to happen for people who have…

— Babloo

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die…

— Dustin Diamond

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms…

— Janeane Garofalo

Sarah Silverman. She's the reason I do comedy. Her DNC speech was my favorite thing I ever heard. Sitting down with her…

— Nikki Glaser

Comedy is actually very hard. It's hard to choose those moments and know when you can really push it, and know when…

— Gerard Butler

Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really…

— Christopher Miller

I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living…

— George Meyer

I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also…

— Colson Whitehead

“Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking…

— Dan Wilbur

I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on…

— Trevor Moore

It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes…

— Franchesca Ramsey

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do…

— Adam Sandler

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

— Billy Childish

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

— David Mitchell

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

— Ronald Knox

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

— Dick Clark

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

— Julian Barratt

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

— Bill O'Reilly

That awkward moment when... You hear a joke in someone else's conversation & accidentally laugh.

— Anonymous

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

— Josh Peck

If you are too busy to share an occasional laugh with someone, you are too busy.

— Melchor Lim

Just past your lips there's more anger than laughter

— Silverstein

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

— Matt Berry

I can't believe in humorless women. I think there's humor even in everyday tragedy.

— Jean Marsh

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

— Gene Hackman

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

— Don Rickles

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

— Florence Scovel Shinn