Comedy Quotes · Page 281

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to…

— Paul Lynde

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.

— Ian McLeod

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

— Jason Segel

I'm offended by political jokes. Too often they get elected.

— Henny Youngman

I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.

— Sara Pascoe

In a funny sort of way, the ramshackle bunch known as the Happy Mondays were a lifesaver for me.

— Bez

Stand-up is therapy. I'm sure every comedian has something wrong with them.

— Lee Evans

“One day we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny”

— Bruce Springsteen

It is so obvious that when you laugh you get problems that takes your laugh away from you! But I feel if…

— Bhargavi

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

— Louis C. K

I had a show that people thought used a laugh track. It wasn't; it was the real audience going crazy after everything…

— Norm MacDonald

Ever since the first 'American Pie,' I've always been happy to just have an opportunity, I just didn't think it was going…

— Sean William Scott

At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue…

— Adam Pally

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a…

— Iliza Shlesinger

“There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.”

— Saul Bellow Herzog

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're…

— Owen Wilson

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you…

— Marcia Gay Harden

I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take…

— Clement Attlee

“Wokeism's impact on free speech becomes pronounced when it leads to the cancellation of individuals expressing opinions, even through the medium of…

— James William Steven Parker

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't…

— Catherine Tate

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space…

— David Dobkin

When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can…

— Peter Vack

My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now.…

— Maz Jobrani

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like…

— Quentin Tarantino

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.

— Larry David

“I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.”

— Sol Luckman

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

— Bill Cosby

I can only write what makes me laugh, and what makes me laugh is the comedy I grew up on.

— Brendan O'Carroll

I love inside jokes. I hope to be a part of one some day.

— Michael Scott

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

— Agnes Repplier

It doesn't feel like you're preaching, if you can say something in a joke.

— Martin McDonagh

On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

— Seth Green

“People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.”

— Bob Monkhouse

Once you let go of your morals, everything becomes funny

— David Hayden

All of us black comedians are trying to be mainstream, but you don't want to lose the edge.

— Jamie Foxx

There's a fear when you're a comedian of just being hectoring, so you do try to fight against that.

— Nish Kumar

What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.

— Riaad Moosa

“Learn to laugh when others will cry, darling, and nobody will ever be able to faze you.”

— Gina LaManna

Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.

— Ted Alexandro

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

— Anonymous