Comedy Quotes · Page 270

I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression.

— Harold Ramis

The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .

— W. C. Fields

To be a comedian: Make peace with the fact that you will never be as funny as a baby falling over.

— Chris Ramsey

I've always found it easy to write comedy in the area where people have strong emotions.

— Jesse Armstrong

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

— John Guare

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

— Will Rogers

I love comedy, I love drama, and I love telling good stories.

— Kim Wayans

I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

— Wanda Sykes

Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I…

— James Lafferty

“Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can’t be played for a laugh.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

You know, the funny thing about Lorne and that show is that, you can go over one million things, but in a…

— Colin Quinn

I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think…

— Joan Cusack

On the comedy side of what I love as a filmmaker are Richard Pryor, Lenny Bruce, and Eddie Murphy; those are my…

— David Dobkin

Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or…

— Rick Famuyiwa

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've…

— Jamie Foxx

If you examine any aspect of the human condition long enough, you really do have to start laughing at it. Because the…

— Justin Simien

After having, I think, rather successfully mined the horror-comedy aspects of this concept over the course of Bride of Chucky and Seed…

— David Kirschner

Being in a smaller environment - sometimes I like that. As a comic, we start off in comedy clubs, and there are…

— Sinbad

Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's…

— Reggie Watts

Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden…

— Steve Harvey

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean -…

— Paul Merton

It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm doing 5000 seat theaters and audiences are going nuts, it's fantastic and it makes me very happy. I'm dirty, but not…

— Bob Saget

'Zorn' goes to some pretty ridiculous places, but the real comedy is coming from these little observations about life that are not…

— Phil Lord

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

— Umberto Eco

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

— William Davis

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

— Stephen Fry

For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.

— Natasha Rothwell

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

— Thomas Middleditch

I went to theater school, and then comedy... just happened.

— Emily Osment

If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.

— Anna Kendrick

I don't think there's anything more scary than being forced into doing stand-up comedy.

— Ari Graynor

Jack is really the new breed, a wild-man comedian. America's funnyman.

— Kyle Gass

“The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”

— George Orwell

Keep a sense of humor, that keeps you balanced, and you'll do quite well with it all, I'm sure.

— Frederick Lenz

Fortunately, I am accustomed to creating amusement inadvertently.

— Graeme Simsion

I'm constantly looking for humour in the news. The funniest things are in the minutiae.

— Hugh Dennis

Twitter is comedy writing. It's one-liners that give way to fully fleshed-out thoughts.

— Jaboukie Young-White

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

— E. M. Forster