Comedy Quotes · Page 230

People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.

— Bill Maher

Comedy is not something that had necessarily jumped out as something I'd immediately go for.

— Ed Speleers

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

— Johnny Vegas

There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.

— Holly Hunter

A lot of the things I do are the sort of things I think are funny.

— Eugene Mirman

Real laughter is when youre almost choking up and need to come up for air

— Ff

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

— John Perry Barlow

What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.

— Mike Birbiglia

When I got emancipated from the foster care program and I became homeless, it was a struggle. I was working at an…

— Tiffany Haddish

I was doing jokey rap stuff in high school. But it was never serious. It was always, like, 'It'd be cool to…

— Andy Samberg

I'd like to keep exploring comedy. I didn't necessarily think of myself as a comedic actress, but it's a lot of fun.

— Mamie Gummer

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

— Bryant H. McGill

I've known Alan Zweibel since 1975, and I've always had this sneaking suspicion that he might possess a sense of humor. After…

— Rob Reiner

When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and…

— Margaret Thatcher

The Internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club…

— Doug Stanhope

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

— Tina Fey

“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so…

— Milan Kundera

I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

The Syfy channel was looking for a show to run alongside 'Ghost Hunters' and investigate the paranormal in a different way. For…

— Josh Gates

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It…

— Robin Williams

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different…

— Paula Patton

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was…

— Steve Martin

Standups always like the room cold, and if you're shooting a sitcom live you want it a little bit chilly for the…

— Jesse Armstrong

Oftentimes, a funny situation is funny because it's uncomfortable or weird. The most memorable stories, or the stuff that you repeat to…

— John C. Reilly

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

— Jennifer Jones

I sometimes say things for a joke, and they are picked up the wrong way.

— Brenda Fricker

All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

— Yahoo Serious

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Comedy is a tool to be used so that people can relate to each other.

— Eddie Griffin

You can't cheat comedy. You know, it either is going to be there on the day you capture or it's not.

— Justin Lin

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

— Christian Morgenstern

Don't be so serious today that you forget to smile and laugh.

— Angela Simmons

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

— Melinda Clarke

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

— Noureen DeWulf

I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

— Princess Superstar

I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?

— Vince Lombardi

The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.

— Jay Leno

“If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.”

— Geoffrey Wood

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

— Lewis Mumford