Comedy Quotes · Page 287

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

— Jennifer Garner

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

— Gore Vidal

If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.

— Scott Adams

If someone can make me laugh until I cry they can probably win my heart.

— Amber Rose

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

— Mario Cantone

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

— Belinda Stewart-Wilson

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

— Bojana Novakovic

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

— Alison Brie

I wish I'd gone to university. I had the opportunity to go to Oxford but by then I'd already started as a…

— Les Dennis

Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm not the type of guy who's funny in the room. I'm the guy who's funny late at night on a computer,…

— Scott Aukerman

Bringing humor and bringing happiness and joy to an audience is a wonderful opportunity in life, believe me.

— Angela Lansbury

I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing…

— Ali Wong

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial…

— Eli Roth

“I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never…

— Nina LaCour

I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying…

— Demetri Martin

I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I…

— Chris Rock

The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you…

— Brian Regan

Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working…

— Brian Thompson

I'm not saying that I'm on some crusade to change people's minds. I'm just doing what I do. I'm a comedian, I'm…

— Maz Jobrani

It's hard to say you're a comedian because that is almost an admittance that you're funny, and if you say that, you…

— Alex Brooker

None of us grew up feeling like winners. So thank you to the bullies, to the popular kids, to the gym teachers…

— Steven Levitan

First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you…

— Adam McKay

“It’s for this reason that consumers are more likely to pay attention to a commercial with a silent segment. It’s also why…

— Bill McGowan

“You haven't lived till you have laughed and made others laugh.”

— Tanushree Podder

The casualness with which people say hello to Julia on the street is hilarious to me.

— Brad Hall

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

— Brendan O'Carroll

It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.

— Curtis Jackson

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

— Louis C. K

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

— John Oliver

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

— Karl Pilkington

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

— Austin Peck

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

— Tig Notaro

It's one thing to make people laugh, but after a certain point, comedy is almost cheap.

— Adam Conover

To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

— Dick Gregory

Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.

— Ramy Youssef

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions

— Criss Jami

I'm a big fan of comedies and dramas, and I watch tons of movies.

— Clive Owen