Comedy Quotes · Page 265

Trevor Noah is a great, relevant young comic, and Comedy Central is smart to stand by him.

— Jim Norton

Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience.

— Julian Barratt

I enjoy doing all different types of movies even though I am the most comfortable with comedy.

— Adam Sandler

Happiness is the most precious thing in life, I like it when my tears dried into laughter.

— DonzilishaKim

Don't be friends with people who don't have a sense of humour. They will kill yours..!!

— Ritu Ghatourey

I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running.

— Grace Hansen

Comedy's the only job I say where you wake up and you're like 'Can't do it!'

— Neal Brennan

“And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.”

— Erica Jong

You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me…

— Johnny Depp

One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag.…

— Alfred Korzybski

I get easily distracted and become a bit of a giddy giggler. I'm not good at taking myself seriously, and laughing at…

— Maxine Peake

Tim Minchin and Daniel Kitson are the two people that when I see them, I think I could never be that funny…

— Richard Herring

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

— Alan Alda

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“If you’re going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. Things are…

— James Patterson

In general, even when I'm not doing political comedy, I want to be clever and find the least confrontational way to say…

— Varun Grover

I feel like with comedy, the crazy things that happen are never serious you know? Like, rubble being poured onto you in…

— Vanessa Hudgens

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I…

— Chris Pratt

I love being on stage if I'm not on a set. If I'm at home, I'm usually in my office editing or…

— Dane Cook

With comedy, it's a combination of knowing the comedic beat was good - it made you laugh, it made people on the…

— Chris Pratt

That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed…

— Zach Galifianakis

I was just trying to blend the standup that I do almost with like the visual sketch stuff that I did on…

— John Mulaney

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's…

— Seth Gordon

“THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!" Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. "What…

— Rick Riordan

I haven't been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy.

— Tony Rock

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

— Dane Cook

“Comedy doesn't makes your IQ higher… ... Read Science... and don't re-read books for higher IQ!”

— Deyth Banger

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

I am reasonably nice-looking and have quite an expressive face, which is good for comedy.

— Richard Herring

Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.

— Zach Galifianakis

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

— Alan King

As an entertainer, a comedy guy, whatever, you're never gonna be truly 100-percent happy with anything.

— Corey Feldman

Why is it ok when a whites person tell a racist joke and they say just kidding fuck its till racist

— Marquez

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

— Anonymous

I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.

— Zoe Kravitz

Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?

— Jack Whitehall

Ok, ok in serious now… (long pause)… *bursts out laughing*

— Anonymous

If I'm laughing, you know I'm either very happy or very sad. I cope with things with jokes.

— Cristela Alonzo

Everyone wants to complain about every joke ever told.

— Matt Rife

Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

— Thomas Love Peacock