Comedy Quotes · Page 249

The Apartment' was fun, but I enjoy comedy much more, and I feel I do it better.

— Fred MacMurray

You:I didn't do it Person:Then why are you laughing? You:Cause, whoever did it is a freaking genius

— Ritu Ghatourey

If I could continue to work in comedy - whether it's TV, stand-up - I will be happy.

— Esther Povitsky

I think people are surprised to learn that I'm pretty goofy and pretty funny.

— Susan Egan

“you can’t be permanently hysterical, so you might as well not bother getting started.”

— Jo Baker

In life, some laugh, some cry, some live, some die. The choice is ours to crawl or to fly.

— RVM

You can't always go to the well and have things be funny.

— Richard Ford

I think a lot of people like to romanticize comedians being outsider romantic losers.

— Sarah Sherman

My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to…

— Noel Fielding

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like.…

— Al Pacino

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood…

— Danny Wallace

Certainly in my appetite for more challenges, it's very much alive. I love comedy and it comes to me in a natural…

— Shawn Levy

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the…

— Robert Orben

We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down…

— Calvin Trillin

The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be…

— Jon Ronson

Some joys are better explained in silence, as a smile gets more audible than laughter. I was asked if I enjoyed my…

— Anonymous

“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be…

— Kathryn Hurn

With Comedy Central, they produced it and did everything - I just had to walk up there and tell the jokes -…

— Jo Koy

I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it…

— Baron Vaughn

So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to…

— Matt Besser

Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally…

— Tom Lehrer

By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the…

— Billy Eichner

There are shows that are doing incredible work on broadcast, especially in comedy. You have to hit that sweet spot of being…

— Quinta Brunson

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only…

— Robin Roberts

[Baz Luhrmann] is funny, to be quite honest with you.

— Quindon Tarver

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

— John Mortimer

“One's theories, after all, matter little, it is one's humor that is the great thing.”

— Henry James

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

— Lester Bangs

One does not laugh because one is happy; one is happy because one laughs.

— Mireille Guiliano

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

— Jedediah Bila

A lot of being a comedian is about observing people.

— Anh Do

But I'm a toon. Toons are supposed to make people laugh.

— Roger Rabbit

The best kind of stomach ache: When your friends make you laugh way too hard.

— Anonymous

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

— Craig Ferguson

You can't get all of your news from Jon Stewart, especially since it's a comedy show.

— Joe Klein

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

— Morgan Freeman

I'm too far to the left for some, too far to the right for others. I'm my own brand of comedy.

— Ralphie May

Those who laugh the hardest are often the most unhappy.

— Bill Loguidice

In all my content I don't really swear or use profanity, because I believe comedy can just be pure.

— Michael Dapaah