Comedy Quotes · Page 268

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

— Max Eastman

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.

— Mahira Khan

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

— Lincoln Steffens

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

— W. Kamau Bell

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

— Bill Hicks

The best jokes take something awful and make it silly.

— Varun Grover

I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up…

— Jessica Williams

Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.

— Sam Kinison

I've never done anything simply because I thought I could get away with it. I've just wanted to do the funniest show.

— Soupy Sales

Let your personality, and sense of humor shine through, that's whats makes you, you. Even God had a sense of humor. Just…

— Nishan Panwar

“SHUT UP," Carot Top say, the cocane now taking effect. "This isnt Poetry 101. People want to laugh. Your suposed to be…

— Seinfeld 2000

I think there is gay comedy, because I think most gay comics are very very very in touch with that identity.

— Bowen Yang

I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.

— Tamron Hall

In my pantheon of comedy idols there's maybe six people: Lisa Kudrow, Conan O'Brian, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Martin Short. Lisa is at the…

— Mae Martin

Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by…

— James Carver

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were…

— Tig Notaro

I think I'm someone who is really prone to melancholy, and the super heavy, thick shows kind of spiral me out into…

— Sara Bareilles

Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak,…

— Sara Coleridge

“Anthropologist Mary Douglas (1991) examines the very thin line separating a joke from an insult: a joke expresses something a community is…

— Henry Jenkins

I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort…

— Jim Carrey

My family’s said to me from the beginning, ‘People are always going to tell you to pick what you want to be…

— Hannah Simone

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships…

— J. J. Abrams

Listen, my philosophy is this: If you don't have a good sense of humor, you're better off dead.

— Roger Rabbit

It's mean to make fun of anybody for the way they look.

— Shenae Grimes

I don't laugh at your humor, I laugh because you look stupid.

— Anonymous

“If you don't laugh at the crazy things, you're liable to lose your mind.”

— Andrew Sturm

I'd rather do comedy. I'd rather make people laugh than cry.

— Lucy DeVito

“That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh.”

— David Sheff

That's the whole point of anyone's standup career. It's to get people to listen to their point of view.

— Deon Cole

It's great to be able to pretend you're tough but funny at the same time.

— Adam Baldwin

I think things are funny when the character is taking it totally seriously.

— Rachel Weisz

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

— Carl Hiaasen

I feel like comedy is where I'm most at ease, but I also have an allergy to silly jokes.

— Jonathan Levine

Irreverence is a way of playing hooky and remaining present at the same time.

— Mary Ruefle

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Punning is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

— Jonathan Swift

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

— Janet Jackson

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”

— Mel Brooks