Comedy Quotes · Page 260

I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.

— Jennifer Aniston

There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness.

— Christina Applegate

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

— Carol Burnett

People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny.

— Richard Russo

“Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.”

— M.J. McGuire

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

— Russell Brand

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

— Henry Green

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

— Michael Ian Black

Stand-up isn't something I just sit down and start writing - it's ideas you come up with in the shower, while you're…

— Chris Hardwick

In every big city there is always one surefire laugh, and that lies in hanging some piece of idiocy upon the people…

— W. C. Fields

No matter how crazy and funny the scenes around us, it is always useless without the people we want to laugh with.

— Anonymous

You can laugh at my behavior that will never bother me, say the devil is my savior, but I don't pay no…

— Roger Hodgson

It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.

— C. S. Lewis

I love being in these ensemble comedy movies. I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know,…

— Jane Lynch

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

— Doug Benson

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute…

— Gilbert Gottfried

Back in the 1970s, male prime-time comedians mainly resembled Mr Potato Head. The terrifically popular 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Club' was a comedy…

— Grace Dent

I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to…

— Michel de Montaigne

If I hadn't got into comedy, I wouldn't have met Abbey, my wife, and I wouldn't have my two girls, and the…

— Robert Webb

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour…

— Mike Birbiglia

If it's a low-brow bawdy comedy, it's got to stand the chance of succeeding as such. If it's an intellectual piece, a…

— John Hurt

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a…

— David Walliams

You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is…

— Doc Brown

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

— Douglas Coupland

Writing a comedy track is an art. It isn't as easy as people think. It can make or break a film.

— Vivek

You should never make fun of something a person can't change about themselves.

— Phil Lester /AmazingPhil

You know you're a bad joker when you're making some jokes and your friends reaction was 'huh?'

— Anonymous

“Do not put up with mean people who discourage your laughter.”

— Jim Dines

Today I laugh till my face become red and now gonna cry till my eyes become red.

— Kanishka Dixit

I'm set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it's easy.

— Ron White

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

— George Takei

“Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend.”

— Susan Nussbaum

Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.

— Dick Smothers

Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.

— Jason Alexander

“I've never made fun of you. Making fun of you would imply that something about you is fun.”

— Abigail Roux

I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?

— Kiera Cass

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.

— Monica Lewinsky

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

— Sarah Silverman

You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.

— Billy Eichner