Comedy Quotes · Page 256

“but laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart”

— Neal Shusterman

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

— Jeff Ross

“Peanut,” Nathan cooed. “You can’t paint it if you’re giggling and shaking.”

— C.L. Stone

You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

— Jennifer Lawrence

Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?

— Joel Goodman

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

To be a really great standup artist, a lot of it comes from the mind.

— Sean Strickland

Comedy's pretty delicate - more delicate than people realize.

— Jimmy Dore

Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out.

— Bonnie McFarlane

When it comes to a show like 'Stath,' I'm not writing it with any intention other than my natural instinct as a…

— Jamie Demetriou

However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

— Henri Bergson

“When someone genuinely laughs with you, it’s proof that you share a certain internal space. And that’s not so lonely after all.”

— Gina Barreca

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

— James Berardinelli

You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is...…

— Lance Henriksen

People, I think, are more interested in being offended than getting to the heart of a situation. And to go after comedians…

— Randy Rainbow

“Madmen, criminals, and rapists! Isn’t it fantastic? All the romantic proposals I’ve ever got from anybody. Somebody up there has an extremely…

— Olga Núñez Miret

“As I see it, the only pleasure of living is that every joke should be made, every thought expressed, every line of…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

I think if you write humor, then people don't - you know - they don't give you that much credit. They tend…

— David Sedaris

If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood…

— Carlos Mencia

In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to…

— Amanda Seales

Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made…

— Bill Burr

'When Katie Met Cassidy' is a romantic comedy about two very different women who find themselves uncontrollably drawn to one another. Issues…

— Camille Perri

So much of comedy is feeling comfortable with the point of view coming at you. So I understand it. There's people who…

— Scott Aukerman

“The Dispatcher had played with his phones, calling from one to the other. Then he put them all down and announced that…

— Robert Lynn Asprin

I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

— Peter Hedges

Come here often?' I asked instead, humoring no one but myself. So it was totally worth it.

— Darynda Jones

I think stand-up comedy is this - it's this kind of indulgence and narcissism.

— Jim Gaffigan

Comedians period, in general, have demons, and myself included.

— Paul Mooney

Acting, music, comedy are all just delivery systems to communicate ideas and stories.

— Kyle Gass

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

— Josh Lucas

My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

— Jim Gaffigan

My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts.

— Carl Barron

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I would make jokes about my height so that no one would first.

— Ava Michelle

“He was a humorist, and everyone knew the funny writers were the most serious sort under their skins.”

— Paula McLain

“Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Snore, and you'll sleep alone.”

— Marian Phair

Laughter is always the best medicine... unless you have diarrhea.

— Anonymous

Don't say it's funny and miss the truth. Laugh at it while taking down the message.

— Terry Mark

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

— Tracy Morgan

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

— Lance Bass