Comedy Quotes · Page 253

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

— Lord Byron

“Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.”

— Steven Charles

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

— Brad Garrett

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

— Jud Tylor

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

— Terry Pratchett

I don't have a great sense of humor, but I do have a great sense of nonsense.

— Nikhil Saluja

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

— William Saroyan

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

In a lot of comedy shows, there's a safety net where you don't assume anything of real consequence will happen.

— Hiro Murai

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

— Louisa May Alcott

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would…

— H. L. Mencken

Mimicry artistes and comedians are supposed to incorporate incidents around him in his acts in a satirical way. For that, he should…

— Salim Kumar

All of my stuff is based on personal stories to back up my arguments. It's not a lecture, it's still comedy. I…

— Sarah Millican

I am glad that actors like Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan are doing justice to comedy. But in our days, nobody could…

— Asrani

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

— Rajneesh

If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to…

— Allison Pearson

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for…

— Jo Brand

Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when…

— Jack Nicholson

I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if…

— Chris Rock

I have observed that in comedies the best actor plays the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the fine gentleman or…

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“She had her own barometer for knowing when a man was getting too close: as soon as he felt comfortable enough to…

— Stephanie Bond

Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy…

— Brent Spiner

I always have the same thing - which is the fear of not getting a laugh - that I've had from the…

— Matthew Perry

“What's happened is somewhere, along the line, as a society, we confused the notion of 'home' with the possibility of 'an investment…

— Stewart Lee

“[he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth”

— Zadie Smith

“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.”

— Bob Monkhouse

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

— Don Rickles

“Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

— Jon Lovett

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

— Peter Jennings

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.

— Matt Berry

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

— Tony Rock

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

— Grete Waitz

To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast

— Ruskin Bond

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

— Graham Norton

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

— Jim Gaffigan

Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.

— David Dobkin

You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

— Joe Abercrombie

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera.

— Stephen Colbert

“People keep making excuses, that’s why everthing happens for a reason.”

— Roy Saputra