Comedy Quotes · Page 293

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

— Ciaran Hinds

I think what I realized is I want to do everything, but I love to always go back to comedy.

— Molly Gordon

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

— George Eliot

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

— Mason Cooley

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

— Jimmy Carr

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

— Sophia Loren

I just find anyone who's arrogant and pompous is always the funniest for me.

— Matt Berry

I'm scared of slipping up, of just doing a joke that makes me laugh.

— David Spade

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and…

— John Cleese

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.

— Russell Brand

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to…

— Sinbad

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out…

— Daoud Hari

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

— Paul Goodman

I've been doing stand-up 29 years; there is no other career when you're finding your stride 30 years into it.

— Jay Mohr

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things…

— Chris Messina

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next…

— Allison Janney

I think it's just funny, the things that come out of people's mouths, whether it's a politician, whether it's an average person…

— Jesse Watters

I combine aspects of fashion, comedy, sculpture, video, painting all kind of in one multimedia sort of curriculum. New York is what…

— Chloe Wise

A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to…

— Nick Kroll

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've…

— Michael Jai White

If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it…

— Darren Boyd

Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to…

— Ken Loach

I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art…

— Noel Fielding

I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to…

— Jim Gaffigan

Being a comedian is probably the only job apart from undertaking that isn't age restricted.

— Peter Kay

I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke.

— Don Rickles

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

— Bam Margera

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Remember that one bares their teeth while laughing.”

— Matthew Sharpe

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

— Regina Hall

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

— Sam Kinison

Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.

— Kiku Sharda

Comedy can be a lot more fun if you try something unique.

— Varun Sharma

Laughing at someone's disorder is the most fucked up thing you could possibly do.

— Anonymous

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

— Max Lucado

When you laugh as much as you breathe, that's when you realize how beautiful life really is.

— Senoraroy

And killing time is perhaps the essence of comedy, just as the essence of tragedy is killing eternity.

— Miguel de Unamuno

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

— Kofi Annan

The top part is a good message, but the bottom part made me laugh.

— Anonymous

I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.

— Elizabeth Berg