Comedy Quotes · Page 258

I get giddy with the idea of stringing words together that make people laugh.

— Greg Behrendt

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

— Ken Kesey

I wouldn't want my comedy show to hurt anybody. I'm not Donald Trump.

— Ralphie May

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama,

— Sharon Gless

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It's a practice of life. It's a practice of happiness.

— Russell Simmons

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

— John Cusack

I'm just funny enough as a comedian to know I'm not good enough to be a comedian.

— John Popper

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

— Louis C. K

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

— Norm Papernick

Because also, sometimes things that are really funny on the day, when you look at them in post can feel too broad,…

— Nicholas Stoller

“Long story short: I don’t know shit about whatever dancing monkey of the moment is amusing the plebes.”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

I think what's happening is that women are allowed to be funnier as we stop pretending that there are subjects that they…

— Jim Norton

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could…

— Dave Attell

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

— David Cross

I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

— Sinbad

You can either just have fun with the joke or you can have fun with the joke and think about the implication…

— Reggie Watts

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else…

— Toby Young

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a…

— Kathy Griffin

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But…

— Jim Gaffigan

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it…

— Kyle Chandler

Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is…

— Adam DeVine

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying…

— Mark Twain

I think being an outsider in general always helps you in comedy. I think it helps to have an outsider's eye. And…

— John Oliver

Will Ferrell is probably the funniest comic actor, certainly of my generation. I am a huge, huge Will Ferrell fan. I'm not…

— Michael Showalter

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

— Anonymous

Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, 'Oh dear?'

— Bradley Walsh

“Sometimes it's the hands that take life too seriously that tickle us to no end.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

I think comedians see themselves as people among people.

— Michael Showalter

“If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.”

— Michaela Haze

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

— Betty White

People tend to feel that if you're a comedian, you can't act.

— David Jason

Humor makes our heavy burdens light and smoothes the rough spots in our pathways.

— Sam Ervin

I want to be able to make people laugh as hard as they possibly can, and I really think they need that.

— Andrew Dice Clay

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

— Patrick Dempsey

Maybe pretty women were always funny but only now decided to go into comedy,

— Patricia Marx

The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.

— Mason Cooley

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary...

— Jean Rhys

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

— R. L. Stine

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

— Olivia Colman