Comedy Quotes · Page 241

“Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them.”

— Henrik Ibsen

“When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you. Birth”

— George R.R. Martin

“I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.”

— craig ferguson

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

— Russell Peters

“The worlds worst cover is a laugh, but I tried it anyway.' (Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 356)”

— Danielle Weiler

My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.

— Jim Breuer

“Laughter clears the atmosphere and it gives liberty to every soul.”

— Euginia Herlihy

It's such fun to take a lot of people and create something silly.

— Eric Idle

You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had…

— Gary Sherman

I'm doing this pilot called 'Demon.' Kevin Smith is directing it. It's a comedy drama. I play a guy who rises up…

— Kyle Gass

It's so funny because, here in Hollywood, an actor who really is versatile and who has the ability to transform between comedy…

— Rocky Carroll

I think drama and comedy are pretty much all the same, and the issue is whether or not you have a sense…

— Valerie Harper

I remember as a child listening to comedic musicals and thinking they were a real riot. I had pretty questionable taste in…

— Zach Woods

It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and…

— Toni Collette

“What are you assholes looking at?" "Nothing," said Radar. "We're certainly not looking at your eyebrows.”

— John Green

The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel better…

— Miranda Hart

There's something so awesome about being able to get up in front of a microphone and do exactly what you want. Stand-up…

— Christian Finnegan

Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is…

— Debra Messing

An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American…

— Terry Gross

Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had…

— Andrew Denton

“Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe…

— Scott Turow

Movies take a lot of time to make, so when I sign onto a project, I ask, do I want to dedicate…

— Kiersey Clemons

“Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old…

— Larry P. Aitken

I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that…

— Denis Leary

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

— George Carlin

“Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.”

— Charles Dickens

Love isn't suppose to be painful because it counts laughter more than tears.

— Mielya Saladdin

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

— Oscar Nunez

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

— Bill Burr

I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.

— David Harbour

If I write a joke and it works, and it works consistently, that is gold to me.

— Sarah Millican

I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.

— Samuel Larsen

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

— Max Eastman

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

— Lenny Bruce

I'd really been wanting to do a television series. I was looking for a comedy.

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

— Christine Feehan

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

— Pauly Shore

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.

— Elsa Lanchester

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

— Andrew Denton

“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.”

— Carla H Krueger