Comedy Quotes · Page 228

In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.

— Paul Merton

The most irritating people are those without a sense of humor, amirite?

— Anonymous

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.

— Anonymous

I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.

— Gaspar Noe

The most difficult thing is to make people laugh. It is easy to make them cry.

— Manorama

You'll laugh at the comedy of errors that is my life.

— Bret Michaels

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

— Stella Benson

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has…

— Jack Dee

It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so…

— Adam McKay

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'

— Nicole Byer

My inspiration for film comedy comes from here. Spend a day on the Madurai streets and you will be amused at the…

— Vivek

You can't practice stand-up alone in your room. You can't find out if a joke works by asking two of your friends.

— Taylor Tomlinson

“Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a…

— Stephanie Bond

If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.

— W. Kamau Bell

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I…

— Donald Glover

Horror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be…

— Eli Roth

Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they…

— Daniel Tosh

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her…

— Peter Capaldi

“An emotional man with bushy eyebrows tells us that if the proposed mosque is built in Bendigo 'the foundation of Australia will…

— John Safran

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he…

— Kym Whitley

It's when I make a joke about Indian people and then a white person comes up to me and says, "That's wrong.…

— Brad Williams

The ones [comedies] that I always liked, whether it's Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, or Fast Times of Ridgemont High, they were…

— Judd Apatow

They are cheaper to make and easier to do; you can just cram in loads of talent into a format that works…

— Natasia Demetriou

Our country's social revolution lends itself to jokes and I use them.

— Nipsey Russell

If life a joke then I’m waiting for the punch. You all about the beef but me, I’m bout the bun.

— Mac Miller

No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.

— Celia Thaxter

“If you have good friends, no matter how life is sucking, they can make you laugh.”

— Kristin Cast

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Since there have been men and women, there have been funny women.

— Andy Samberg

“A nation with minimum laws will have maximum laughter.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.”

— George Saintsbury

I never had a particular brand of comedy, nor did I follow a particular style.

— Vivek

I'm usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

— Rosie Jones

“They both laughed at the image that swam between them like a cloud.”

— Catherine Bybee

“All I know about humour is that I don't know anything about it.”

— Fred Allen

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

— Katey Sagal

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

— John Updike

It's easy to trick yourself into thinking something's funnier than it is.

— Paula Pell

Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release.

— Ray Stevenson