Comedy Quotes · Page 302

That was actually funny. But I don't like you. So I'm not going to laugh.

— Anonymous

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

— George Miller

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

— Charles Bukowski

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

— Lisa Lampanelli

You see in comedy - performance is the cake and dialogue is like the icing on that cake.

— Johnny Lever

Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Pain and humiliation is always amusing when it happens to someone else.”

— Eileen Cook

I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.

— Jason Biggs

I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought…

— Matt Besser

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it…

— Abhay Deol

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

— Giacomo Leopardi

In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this…

— Famke Janssen

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of…

— Horace Walpole

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar…

— Phil LaMarr

I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass…

— Alan Tudyk

The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes…

— Joseph Epstein

I have done many comedy films. Success of films like 'Partner,' 'Singh is Kinng' gets you to a very wide audience reach.…

— Katrina Kaif

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed…

— Robert Gottlieb

My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my…

— Mircea Monroe

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where…

— Samuel Johnson

When I started, I wanted to be thought of as tortured and seductive, not funny, but humor tends to be a reflexive…

— Mark Leyner

It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A…

— Peter Kay

To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the…

— David Salle

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.…

— Sophie Thompson

“Mostly they laughed because they laughed, feeding off each other until they could barely stand.”

— J.K. Rowling

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

— Nahnatchka Khan

“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall." - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1”

— William Shakespeare

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

— David Mitchell

I don't control the line of 'funny,' 'funny,' 'funny,' 'not funny.'

— Tracy Morgan

No one can make you laugh without a reason unless you're crazy.. :)

— Mega

Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.

— Mike Birbiglia

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

— Anthony Jeselnik

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

— Dylan Moran

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor.

— Jerry Lewis

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have commited suicide.

— Tonirose

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

— Jodie Foster

“You don't need to travel, laughter is an instant vacation”

— Milton Berle

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

— Jim Stovall

“You were a laugh with some potential. Now you're but a pricey pain.”

— David Hine