Comedy Quotes · Page 279

I would never have considered becoming a comedian when I was a student.

— Tim Key

I know I can never work in a comedy because I can't keep a goddamn straight face.

— Evangeline Lilly

“If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

— Carla H Krueger

While there are different genres of comedy, I am for family entertainment.

— Javed Jaffrey

People don't want to laugh at physically attractive people.

— Matt Rife

I don't think changing minds is possible with just comedy. It's too much to expect from your own art.

— Varun Grover

I didn't really discover that I had a knack for comedy until I landed 'Married w/ Children.'

— David Faustino

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a…

— Peter Cameron

Voyeurism, watching people go about their daily lives, is universally funny, no matter the culture, no matter the anything, it's just always…

— James Murray

If you get Sharon Horgan, Julia Davis and Sam Spiro in the same room, they're going to make me laugh out loud.

— Rebecca Front

I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where…

— Kristen Bell

I'm learning that if you put yourself out there and make fun of yourself first, it really does work. People can't really…

— Nikki Glaser

The worse things are on the world stage, the more fodder there will always be for comedians. But at the end of…

— Randy Rainbow

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing…

— Brad Hall

When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it's absurd. But it's tragic at the same time.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I'd like to help other comedians and when I get a little older I'd like to open up a nice comedy club…

— Bruce Bruce

I don't have the body or the face for romantic comedies, so I've never been offered those. The challenge is that a…

— Glenn Close

I feel like most standup comedians do it the way I did it, where you just go to open mics and cut…

— Michael Che

The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or…

— Al Franken

I tend to think some things are off-limits. Not in the sense that you should not be able to say them, but…

— Stuart Hall

I think it would be so fun to do some kind of comedy, something - I'm not exactly sure, but something like…

— Eva Mendes

There are certain things that I wrote jokes about that didn't make various specials because I was like, you know what? I…

— Taylor Tomlinson

Comedy is a very personal thing, and some people will find it funny, some people won't.

— Stephen Mangan

This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

— Vicki Lawrence

Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

— Tracy Morgan

I love making people laugh. I just happened to do it dressed as a woman.

— Divine

I know my life is full of awkward pauses, and I think it's hilarious.

— Josh Hutcherson

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.

— Brad Garrett

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

— Dave Foley

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

— Jerry Seinfeld

People who can dance and sing are often very good at comedy.

— John Michael Higgins

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

— Lizzy Caplan

“Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but... why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?”

— A.A. Bell

Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.

— Margaret Cho

Most people laugh at situations rather than a tagline anyway.

— Steve Zahn

Laughing at your own joke so hard that you can barely tell it.

— Anonymous

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

— Brandon Jay McLaren

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

— Marc Maron