Comedy Quotes · Page 283

A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.

— Mark Addy

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

— John Cleese

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

— Ronnie Corbett

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

— Jim Gaffigan

There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.

— David Simon

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I don't believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age”

— Adrianne Ambrose

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.

— Zooey Deschanel

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my…

— Malik Yoba

'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after…

— Eric Andre

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other…

— Demetri Martin

“Where do you think Britney Spears would be now if her mum hadn’t pushed her to keep singing at a young age?!”…

— Chloe Seager

I really don't mind being a comedian because I get the chance to make people laugh and I think that's truly a…

— Ali

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that…

— Mike Birbiglia

The type that makes me laugh and cry and scream and double over and dance and walk and spit and live and…

— Lori Ann Felker

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a…

— Agnes Repplier

But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they…

— Daniel Clowes

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and…

— Denis Norden

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your…

— Roger Corman

A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes…

— Rose Matafeo

I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun…

— Hayden Panettiere

“I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the…

— Jon Stewart

How do you deal with it?" Kami asked Jared. "The laughing at nothing and occasionally stopping dead in your tracks." "I have…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

— Kenan Thompson

Advertisers also know that humor can help bond us to their product.

— Allen Klein

Sit the comedy out, and that done, when the Play's at an end, let the Curtain fall down.

— Thomas Flatman

You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.

— Ram Charan

I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

— Russell Howard

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

— James Thurber

“You could not believe what one sigh articulates. What one laugh creates.”

— Mark Z. Danielewski

If person can type lol without laughing that person can also type I Love You without Loving.Be careful!

— Islamic Person

If we go down in flames, we will be laughing on the way down, believe me.

— Jay Leno

Sometimes, even if its not funny, I respond 'haha' just to make them feel good.

— Anonymous

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

— Jennifer Aniston

You laugh because you think it's a joke. I laugh because you think I'm joking.

— Anonymous

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.

— Jim Gaffigan

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

— Tom Green

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

— Melissa Fumero