Comedy Quotes · Page 282

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

— Cullen Hightower

Instead of last man standing, it'll be last man smiling.

— John Currin

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

— Jimmy Carr

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream?

— John Mulaney

Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

— Nancy Cartwright

Comedy, at least the way I write comedy, is just drama with jokes.

— Rob Walton

An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

— Anthony Jeselnik

“Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

I like to smile a lot before going in the car. I make jokes, even on the grid, and then I can…

— Romain Grosjean

Laughter is like a fresh new day, each giggle is the dawn of a new morning; brighten up your day and smile…

— Anonymous

“We've got your back, Ying. So don't go-- losing your head. Just joking!" "I though it was funny. Come here.”

— Jeremy Whitley

After 'Melancholia' and 'On the Road,' I wanted to do a comedy. And I did so many comedies when I was younger,…

— Kirsten Dunst

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that…

— Mario Monicelli

You see a lot of comedic content that's not funny, and you can tell that it's supposed to be funny, but it's…

— Jonathan Krisel

A lot about Congress is about forming good working relationships with people, and humor can really help you do that.

— Linda Sanchez

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will…

— Fede Alvarez

I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book.…

— George Meyer

“The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation…

— V.S. Ramachandran

I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Hangover,' but I'd love…

— Todd Phillips

I think 'Glee' was a freshman comedy, and I think whenever it's your debut season, you get compared a lot to the…

— Gillian Jacobs

I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling…

— Sandra Bernhard

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is…

— Christopher Lloyd

I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a…

— Khaled Hosseini

With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's…

— Walton Goggins

A man who laughs when things go wrong,has thought of someone to blame it on.

— Ace Kid

I can't defend someone else's jokes. I can only defend my jokes, and I have to live with my own jokes.

— Jeff Ross

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

— Robert Benchley

“To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.”

— Carla H Krueger

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

— David Dobrik

You gotta be able to smile and laugh through the bullshit. (:

— Anonymous

“That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter”

— Henri Bergson

As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

— Dylan McDermott

Not a lot of people in comedy grew up together and have been friends for 25 years.

— Sal Vulcano

Sex is identical to comedy in that it involves timing.

— Phyllis Diller

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

— Christina Aguilera

Comedy now is all about body shaming and delivering vulgar dialogues. There can't be another Manorama.

— Sowcar Janaki

The funniest thing about some people is that they have no sense of humor.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I do realise that when I laugh, it sounds like a seal is being molested.

— Jimmy Carr

There's a hidden Goth in me: I have a dark sense of humour; I have a dark sense of fashion.

— Sonali Bendre