Comedy Quotes · Page 275

“Laugh heals smart people, but it insults the stupid ones.”

— Jan Werich

“You can't take a crash course in comedy, there is no crash course in comedy.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Laugh now, and laugh hard. For laughter is the bell. And when it rings, it cleanses the air.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I'm always amazed that people are interested in comedy.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

— Frank McCourt

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

— Alan Moore

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

— Annie E. Clark

I really like to inject humor in whatever situation I'm in, that's important to me.

— Dorit Kemsley

Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy could do…

— Tracy Morgan

“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.”

— Sena Jeter Naslund

There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love…

— Pete Holmes

I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny…

— Nora Ephron

Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.'

— Lucy Davis

“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97”

— Marcel Benabou

It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified…

— Alexander Pope

I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them.…

— Moon Bloodgood

“is there any I could get a glass of water?" [waiter]There is no way... I toss and turn many a night trying…

— Brian Regan

I used to love, love Steve Martin. I still do... I would get these albums, and I would just listen to them…

— Paul Rudd

People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There was always, along the way in my career, as more and more I made marijuana a part of my act and…

— Doug Benson

Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing…

— Kumail Nanjiani

When I'm driving past the place I used to work, or when I'm driving past the comedy studio where I used to…

— Kelly Marie Tran

I try to be careful not to put the cart before the horse. I try not to create comedy for other comedians…

— Brian Regan

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that…

— Aziz Ansari

The awkward moment when you make a joke and nobody laughs

— Kyran

Sometimes all you can do is laugh to keep youself from crying.

— Anonymous

Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes.

— Steve Martin

Comedy is the most difficult thing to do. Easily the most difficult.

— Christopher Lee

I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

— Kyle Dunnigan

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

— Desi Arnaz

“the laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.”

— Aristotle

I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.

— Gail Carriger

An eccedentesiast is an individual who prefers to hide emotional pain with a smile and or laughter.

— Anonymous

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

— Condoleezza Rice

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

— Mel Brooks

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

— Rosario Castellanos

I lived in Amsterdam for five years doing comedy out there.

— Brendan Hunt

Laughter is simply a smile heard out loud, that echoes happiness and love.

— Anonymous

Old School has humongous laughs all the way through it.

— Thomas Lennon

If you have any sense, if you're any good at comedy, you come to Austin.

— Chris Cubas