Comedy Quotes · Page 251

I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

— Miranda Hart

My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

— Ron Moody

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

— John Cleese

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

— Jenna Fischer

I certainly think that live comedy on radio is my favourite thing.

— Rhod Gilbert

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

— Baron Vaughn

It's called a joke. Just read it and laugh. Don't try to analyze it and take it literally.

— Green Monk

“Spreading laughter is healthy and more fun than sex. Well... unless you do them at the same time.”

— Michael Clutton

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a…

— Edward de Bono

Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just…

— Adam Sandler

There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the…

— Romesh Ranganathan

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please…

— Alexander Pope

I was desperate for comedy to seep into me somehow, convinced that being surrounded by it would give me the confidence to…

— Lolly Adefope

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm…

— John Baldessari

At Temple University, and I'm sure this was the way in a lot of film classes, comedy was not an option, and…

— Tim Heidecker

You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are…

— Todd Phillips

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles…

— Marchette Chute

It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must…

— Robert Orben

Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank…

— John Mulaney

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too…

— Tom Robbins

It's a real democratic time for comedy, and I think my special is a sign for that. You don't have to just…

— Nick Kroll

If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other…

— Emraan Hashmi

The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10…

— Rainn Wilson

When you do a comedy, the goals are much clearer to me.

— Luke Wilson

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

My most annoying habit is laughing all the time. I can't stop giggling. I do it because I'm nervous.

— Kelly Brook

The edge of inappropriate is the spiritual home of the best stand-up comedy.

— Frank Skinner

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Good late-night humor can work at any time of the day.

— Rich Eisen

At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.

— Lucas Till

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

— Mindy Kaling

The only thing I know how to do is be funny - that's it.

— Leslie Jordan

It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.

— Sean Hayes

I decided that it was more important to laugh than to eat.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“No one has ever honestly said, “I hate that this joke exists, even though it’s clearly hilarious.” It”

— Chuck Klosterman

who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.

— Lauren DeStefano

There are many differences between Netflix and Comedy Central.

— Tim Robinson

Because I work in comedy, I can't kick back and watch sitcoms as a form of leisure anymore.

— Esther Povitsky

I never lack material for my humor column when Congress is in session.

— Will Rogers