Comedy Quotes · Page 263

I'd like to try comedy, at some point, but no one ever hires me for comedy, ever.

— Paula Malcomson

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

— Henry Roth

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

— Craig Ferguson

The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is.

— Mike Birbiglia

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

— Charlie Chaplin

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

— Sandra Bernhard

You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.

— Charlie Hunnam

Louis is Louis Walsh, if he don't work again, he's laughing. So are generations of Louis Walsh to come.

— Rylan Clark-Neal

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

— Soleil Moon Frye

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

— Robert Gottlieb

The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the…

— James Bobin

Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of…

— Billy Zane

The ultimate test of whether you posses a sense of humor is your reaction when someone tells you you don't.

— Frank Tyger

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

— Jorge Garcia

I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

— Aisha Tyler

I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was…

— Aasif Mandvi

I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good…

— Franklyn Ajaye

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you…

— Salman Rushdie

I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy.…

— Bo Burnham

I think people imagine that I have about five scripts sitting in front of me and I say, 'I think I'm going…

— Nathan Fillion

The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York,…

— Sarah Silverman

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in…

— Jeffrey Tambor

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that…

— Aziz Ansari

It's fine if folk don't like my sense of humour. But if somebody misunderstands, then that hurts a bit.

— Limmy

There seems to be a weird ceiling to being a stand-up as far as acting.

— Jay Mohr

Some of my fear and anxieties surrounding faith, I think, provides some good comedy for my act.

— Jim Gaffigan

“There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe”

— Holly Black

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

— Bruce Forsyth

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

— Jim Carrey

Its not nice to make a joke about someone, just because you wanna laugh with your friends.

— Anonymous

“There are levels of humor. The level above mine is invisible and inaudible.”

— Jarod Kintz

When you've heard every short people joke possible, but people tell you them anyways.

— Anonymous

To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.

— Judy Gold

Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea.

— Dana Gould

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.

— Guillermo Diaz

It's hard to be sad when you're laughing, so I enjoy making people happy.

— Tim Conway

All Rise' isn't your typical legal procedural, nor is it a straight comedy either.

— Simone Missick

When somebody laughs at me I give pain to myself I think I should do the opposite

— Anonymous

It's not easy to direct in another language, especially comedy.

— Eugenio Derbez