Comedy Quotes · Page 247

Steve Carell and Tina Fey are a match made in comedy heaven. They're perfect.

— Ben Lyons

We are indulging in therapy involuntarily when we chose to laugh.

— Binnu Dhillon

I think comedies should be short. I don't want to be self-indulgent; I don't want a two-hour comedy.

— Ricky Gervais

Bust Down' is one of the funniest things I've ever done in my life.

— Chris Redd

I have weird aspirations. Like, I really want to kick a pigeon.

— Hannibal Buress

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

— Lisa Lutz

“Sure, if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.”

— Kiera Cass

All great comedians make me laugh, but people make me laugh more.

— Louie Anderson

You remember from watching the show, there are no "jokes." That's why if you see people on Twitter accusing me of being…

— Jay Mohr

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is…

— Eric McCormack

I'm very protective of my material. And you have to be, because it's very easy for people just to steal jokes.

— Sarah Millican

I laugh a lot, especially between shots, and it's tough for me to control. There have been so many instances where my…

— Anushka Shetty

I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally.

— Robert Mankoff

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he's most playful, ... I think Rupert is really adept…

— Benjamin Bratt

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

— Shelley Winters

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life…

— Constance Rourke

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit…

— John Cleese

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it…

— Christopher Moore

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of…

— William Hazlitt

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there…

— Demetri Martin

I've never been funny. I don't think I'm funny. People say I'm funny. I go, 'No. No. I'm not.' But again, knowing…

— Tamlyn Tomita

“In the center of the room Sarra the demon hung upside down by one leg, its arms bound behind its back, its…

— Katie MacAlister

It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe.…

— Margaret Cho

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

— Chuck Jones

I pray to the shrine of 'Mr. Show.' It saved sketch comedy.

— Michael McKean

A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him.

— Vivek

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

— Plato

Putting any situation through our comedy lens always goes on in our heads.

— Sal Vulcano

Laughing is the best medicine. But laughing for no reason, you need medicine

— Anonymous

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

— Radha Mitchell

The thing I wanted more than anything was to make a career of standup - and I have.

— Andrew Santino

Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.

— Tig Notaro

You got one guy going boom, one guy going whack, and one guy not getting in the endzone.

— John Madden

“Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back.”

— Saru Singhal

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

— Gene Wilder

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

— Katherine Mansfield

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

— Dee Wallace

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.

— Carlos Ponce

I think a lot of comedy is about making fun of people at the expense of somebody.

— Phil Dunster