Comedy Quotes · Page 285

The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.

— Paul Auster

Chris Guest is the godfather of improvisational comedy.

— Tom Bennett

Comedy helped me open up and be vulnerable with people and actually listen when people talk.

— Chris Redd

I think it's really important to have a sense of humor.

— Chelsea Martin

Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

— Al Swearengen

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

— Frank Gorshin

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself.

— Dolly Parton

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

— Al Franken

A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.

— Elvis Mitchell

Male comics are always coming up to me and they're like 'Hey Natasha. Don't you think you're a little attractive to be…

— Natasha Leggero

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and,…

— Sandra Bullock

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of…

— Don Rickles

It's like love making, the foreplay is the biggest part, the same thing as comedy. If you can frame your show in…

— Tommy Chong

Unfortunately we live in a world where I think women aren't actively encouraged or at least not empowered to make good work…

— Rose Matafeo

If you pay attention, stand-up can be great improv training ground. But one of the things that helped me the most was…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Catherine Tate was a proven comedy actress from a comedy background with great taste. I knew her work, and was an incredible…

— Paul Lieberstein

You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been…

— Jonah Hill

“The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that…

— Brett Tate

The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this…

— Jim Norton

When you go and meet people in far-flung parts of the world who need help, they're not earnest; they're having a laugh…

— Hugh Dennis

Some people get into comedy because they love comedy. Then there are people who have a message and have realised that if…

— Aisling Bea

I think that there's a fine line between comedy and drama. I think that ultimately, the less winking that's going on when…

— Michael Mosley

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means…

— Michael Haneke

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall…

— Klaus Kinski

If you can laugh at your mistakes, it's a good thing.

— Ozzy Osbourne

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

— Bob Newhart

Joking about someone's weakness is not a crime but it's the attitude

— Winnie Tara

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

— Rick Moody

If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.

— Nathan Fielder

A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have.

— Anonymous

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

— Pat Conroy

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

— Mel Brooks

I am a jolly person. I love to laugh and make people laugh all the time.

— Binnu Dhillon

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

— Christopher Fry

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

— Mel Brooks

There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

— Michael Scott

I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.

— Colson Whitehead

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

“Laughs are just like smiles. People use them to express an array of confounding emotions.”

— Nita Prose

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'

— Gillian Jacobs