Comedy Quotes · Page 280

The confusion raised from understanding quotes is funny as hell.

— Anonymous

Everyone should nurture the ability to laugh at themselves.

— Pooja Bedi

I had a very happy upbringing; I love funny people and love to make them laugh.

— Richard Herring

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

— Hunter S. Thompson

“If you're laughing,you are not crying,even though they look similar.And that works for me.”

— Therese Borchard

You can't take life too seriously. You just have to laugh your way through it.

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I always say to Blake Griffin that he has a better comedy career than I do.

— Neal Brennan

I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I…

— Lydia Lunch

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to…

— Augustus William Hare

I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it.…

— Kaley Cuoco

I just loved comedy as a kid and I think at some point, it just occurred to me that you could try…

— Eugene Mirman

I am a funny as well as an emotional person. The comedian inside me cries at times while watching a movie.

— Bharti Singh

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are…

— Macy Gray

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's…

— Tracy Morgan

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two…

— Mitch Hedberg

“She prefers the more dramatic shows where everyone's getting kidnapped or raped or shut up in a dark hole, and you aren't…

— Margaret Atwood

In 'Bojack,' at least at first, we had to couch some of the sadder or weirder or introspective stuff we were doing…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The real focus at first is to just become a good stand-up comedian, and then when you get to a certain level,…

— Jon Stewart

“Ash nodded. “Look for Oberon or Mab,” he said grimly, scanning the battlefield. “They’ll likely be on opposite sides of the river.…

— Julie Kagawa

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the…

— Luis Gutierrez

“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb,…

— Steve Allen

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow,…

— Ben Stiller

What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

— Lenny Bruce

I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.

— Red Skelton

“I decide to release myself the only way I can imagine: I pee my pants.”

— Phil Torcivia

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

— Muhammad Ali

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

— Amy Poehler

I began my comedy as its only actor and I come to the end as its only spectator.

— Antonio Porchia

When people see me in movies, they think it is easy to say punch-lines and make them laugh.

— Binnu Dhillon

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

— E. B. White

To me, comedy and music are not even really separate entities.

— Kyle Gass

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

— John Witherspoon

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

— Kevin Eubanks

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

— Joseph Heller

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

— Jonathan Krisel

“Fortunately, I find that if a situation is funny or risible enough, I tend to bleed less profusely.”

— J.D. Salinger

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

— Rachael Harris

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

— Bill Maher