Comedy Quotes · Page 219

That's like my happy space: joking around with people. It's just my personality. It's just who I am.

— Weston McKennie

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

— Moira Kelly

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

— Rita Rudner

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.

— Tracy Morgan

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

— Sarah Silverman

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they will never cease to be amused!..

— Anonymous

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

— Dave Chappelle

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

— Bill Hicks

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

— Dreama Walker

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

— Susan Sontag

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it…

— Ralph Ineson

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy…

— Josh Widdicombe

“Cameron firmly believed if you couldn’t laugh at yourself, you weren’t allowed to laugh at anyone else either.”

— Marie Force

Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need…

— Jonathan Krisel

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But…

— Billy Crystal

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,…

— Goldie Hawn

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like…

— Dylan Moran

A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration,…

— William Cowper

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is…

— John Cleese

Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you…

— Lin Yutang

I love the inpatience of New York... You ever had somebody not-ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking…

— Jim Gaffigan

I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into…

— Hugh Dennis

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible…

— Camille Perri

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

— J. R. Martinez

He who laughs at himself shall never run out of things to laugh at.

— Anonymous

A Whoopee cushion filled with gravy adds a hilarious new dimension to a rather tiresome practical joke

— Thegr81

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

— Neil Simon

I have shielded myself against the volley of jokes that I have been made the subject of.

— Alok Nath

I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.

— Carol Kane

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

— Cullen Hightower

“He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

— Scott Adsit

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

— George Carlin

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Housefull 3' is not meant to be taken seriously, but is meant to be laughed at.

— Lisa Haydon

“You'll be my Queen, and I'll be your Jester 'cause all I want is to fill your days with laughter”

— Rick Ferreira

“Jesus has to be crying up there somewhere. Or laughing hysterically. I can't figure out which one.”

— Maya Banks

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson