Comedy Quotes · Page 227

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

— Thomas Middleditch

“I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.”

— Randy Kagan

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

— David Sedaris

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.

— Bill Burr

I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.

— Michael Keaton

“Masked by a pair of pink cotton panties, the man looks like some sort of deranged bank robber.”

— Dave Lundy

I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

— Steve Carell

“As long as there is life, my dear friends, laughter will be the weapon of we who mock it even as we…

— George Herman

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business…

— Al Madrigal

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all…

— Paul Provenza

So I was surprised at the notion that I might have brought anthrax to my home, and would have been even amused…

— Steven Hatfill

“Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.”

— James Martin

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

— Jesmyn Ward

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

— Peter Hedges

Here's what I'm afraid of. I know a lot of comedians, friends of mine, who just got into the 'Doesn't matter what…

— Patton Oswalt

“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on.…

— Suzanne Collins

“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making…

— Siri Hustvedt

I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me.…

— Stephen Colbert

For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things…

— Demetri Martin

For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find…

— Rajneesh

I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being…

— Jim Jefferies

“Oh really?’ said Mayes raising a mocking eyebrow which put Rob in mind of a poor man’s Roger Moore. ‘And what on…

— Dougie Brimson

The tone of 'On My Block' has you going from bent-over laughter to shedding thug tears from scene to scene, and even…

— Jason Johnson

“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”

— William Powers

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

— Rob Lowe

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

— Michael J. Fox

The best thing about serial drama - especially about screwball comedy - is blocked love.

— Alison Pill

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

— Rodney Dangerfield

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

— Seth MacFarlane

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

— George Carlin

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

— Jennifer Aniston

But he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.

— Ken Kesey

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

— Abraham Lincoln

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

— Stephen Hawking

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

— Manuel Puig

“Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

— Stephen Chbosky

Everybody's got a serious side and everybody's got a fun side.

— Donovan McNabb

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

— Joe Rogan

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

— Nikolai Gogol