Comedy Quotes · Page 248

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

— Buddy Hackett

I have a bad habit of laughing at inappropriate moments

— Bianca Knoechel

Good films will run, and people will watch it irrespective of whether it is suspense or a comedy.

— Bobby Deol

So many people are in comedy because of difficult mothers or broken homes.

— Judd Apatow

The act of laughing releases some nice chemical into your brain, you feel good and it's free.

— James Patterson

The #MeToo movement is insanely serious, and there's no comedy to be mined out of that.

— Joel McHale

You do that thing that makes me laugh and just like that...

— Sugarland

I love that point when you're so tired that everything is funny.

— Ramandeep Singh

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been…

— Twyla Tharp

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're…

— Colleen Haskell

I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to…

— Rachel Parris

If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place.

— Roisin Conaty

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but…

— John Morreall

The rules of comedy are, don't complain, it's a brilliant job. You complain, and you're seen as losing touch with reality.

— Lee Mack

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.

— Virginia Madsen

'Breaking In' is a very different office comedy and a caper comedy. Aside from 'Chuck,' there is no half-hour comedy that does…

— Adam F. Goldberg

That's when you're laughing the hardest because you're not really in character. You're just trying to learn the moves, but once they…

— Malin Akerman

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a…

— Audra McDonald

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever.…

— Matt Besser

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they…

— Tori Amos

Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades;…

— Michel Houellebecq

But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking…

— Scott Aukerman

I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period.…

— Dalai Lama

Remember, we really grew up separately; our life experience was very different because of segregation. So I think comedy is a good…

— Riaad Moosa

I've always wondered, what am I going to do that's important with these stupid jokes that I tell.

— Ray Romano

But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.

— Neal Brennan

In my mind, if you write a comedy where human beings experience pain, you're just being realistic.

— James L. Brooks

Is it still okay to make fun of schizophrenics? There's a little voice in my head that says no.

— Dana Gould

“If your going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”

— James Patterson

I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

— Kristen Bell

“The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.”

— John H. Matthews

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

— Mark Twain

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

— Denis Leary

“All around the world, people are exuberantly laughing right now.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

Sleep deprivation may not be good for your health but it's great for your sense of humour.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White

While you are crying for someone, They are busy laughing with someone else.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Jokes are always better than promises. Because jokes are half meant, while promises are half lies.

— Anonymous

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

— T. J. Miller

Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable.

— Robert Cheeke