The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Humor is not the opposite of seriousness. Humor is the opposite of despair. — Conrad Hyers Copy Share Image
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Your chemistry with your co-actors is more important in a comedy. You can't leave it to your performance alone. So many things… — Tabu Copy Share Image
Without humor, life is boring. Without love, life is hopeless. Without friends like you, life is impossible! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm probably a lot closer than perhaps the contents of my early fiction suggest to a jaded Denny's waitress with smoker's-lung-black humor… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Awards shows have devolved into self-parodies - liberals in limos, corny insider jokes delivered by the hosts among bad teleprompter reading from… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Drama is a complete meal, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates. It's a slow burn thing. It's got an arc. Comedy is more like coke. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“Few people actually read. Instead, everyone likes pretending they read. If we spent as much time reading as we say we do,… — Dan Wilbur Copy Share Image
There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically. It's the only truly safe… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
“I will tell him something one of the characters said and I can see he is ready to laugh even before I… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
All the greatest comedians use comedy and humor to release pain and sadness, and I think that instead of wanting to live… — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of… — Kate McKinnon Copy Share Image
I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
People doing rhymes that are nonsense - nothing can make me laugh like that. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
The hardest thing about new friendships is to try to figure out the boundary for jokes — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished! — Augustus Copy Share Image
My CD, my first release, was at the Comedy Works in Denver, one of the best clubs in the country. — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv. — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
“Laughter can cure anything, when you laugh, it pushes the darkness out of your soul.” — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
