Comedy Quotes · Page 226

Nothing better than a good laugh and giggling over a whole bunch of nothing.

— Yolanda Hadid

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

— Herbert Gardner

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

— David Rakoff

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

— Norman Jewison

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

— Katey Sagal

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

If anything had happened to Bob, I wouldn't have carried on. Me and Bob are a comedy unit.

— Vic Reeves

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

— Josh Billings

Whatever I did, I always gravitated toward trying to be funny. If I was with friends, we were joking around. If I…

— Colin Jost

I think any man over 250 pounds rollerblading is instant hilarity. There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

— Chris Pratt

I feel like, at times, I've been seen as the dirty stepchild of Australian comedy. I think there's a few people out…

— Jim Jefferies

Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or…

— Doug Benson

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me…

— Lewis Black

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope…

— Will Durst

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at…

— Bert Williams

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as…

— Julian Clary

I can do jokes sometimes where I feel like I'm being mean to a person - it's not like they're there -…

— Nate Bargatze

The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient…

— Thurman Arnold

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…

— Mervyn Peake

Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.…

— Aimee Garcia

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say…

— Lindy West

I was seeing this girl and she wanted to get more serious. But I wasn't ready to, I had just gotten out…

— Demetri Martin

Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever…

— Scot Armstrong

“I think there is a difference between comic essays and war reporting, and people can tell that.”

— David Sedaris

Laughter is God's hand on the shoulder of a troubled world.

— Anonymous

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

— William Dean Howells

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

— George Carlin

Why can't we give the American people a break and separate humor from politics?

— Dan Crenshaw

'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.

— Anonymous

“Sometimes I look at my laughter lines and wonder what on earth could have been that funny.”

— Mark Lamprell

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

— Mahmoud Darwish

I wanted to do a film which was in the not-so-serious zone and wanted to try comedy.

— Akshara Haasan

“If laughter is one of the best medicines in life...laughing at yourself is a conducive pill.”

— Timothy Pina

Like, if you see my show, my jokes are much longer and they're just like, I'm going with the vibe.

— Josh Blue

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

— Denis Norden

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

— Chris O'Dowd

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh

— Anonymous

We are in desperate need of a well-done romantic lesbian comedy.

— Jill Bennett

“If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.”

— Moffat Machingura