Comedy Quotes · Page 304

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

— Jamie Hewlett

I think there's a core of real anger or misery inside every true stand-up comic.

— Scott Raab

The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

— John Krasinski

Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

— Katy Perry

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

— Patti LuPone

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

— Flip Wilson

“Then we quit jokeing and he says You have improved a hole lot”

— Ring Lardner

In comedy, if you don't have the right tuning with your co-actor, the humour can fall flat.

— Jacqueline Fernandez

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited…

— Michael Schur

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been…

— Chuck Klosterman

Always remember, you don't stop shitting your pants because you grow old. You grow old because you stop shitting your pants.

— Dana Gould

To ease the pain, you have to learn to use what cost your a pain and turn it to a joke that…

— Simphiwe Ntuli

I'm going to keep doing the comedy and the art that I do. I'm going to keep uplifting marginalized voices, and I…

— Phoebe Robinson

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the…

— Anne Dudley

Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're…

— Robin Williams

We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of…

— Norman Lear

But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected with these schools…

— Mark Rylance

I really would love to do a romantic comedy because I am pretty much the nerdiest, goofiest girl you have ever met.…

— Nicole Scherzinger

What a great unifier getting scared is. Not in an actual threatening, real-world way, but getting scared from horror movies or haunted…

— Kyle Kinane

“Didn’t even have to argue with her. She just told me she loved me and offered the back of her neck.” He…

— Shelly Laurenston

The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware…

— Louis C. K

I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy…

— Emo Philips

I very much had wanted to do a picture with more humor than what I had been allowed to do earlier, which…

— Curtis Hanson

I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between…

— Ram Charan

“There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.”

— Niels Bohr

I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are mean.

— Zach Galifianakis

I don't want to have to be a teacher so I can be a comedian.

— Josh Gondelman

“Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.”

— George Sheehan

“It takes maturity to be able to laugh like a child again.”

— Moffat Machingura

I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.

— Jack Whitehall

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

— Richard Armitage

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

— Paul Feig

I feel that it is a privilege to make viewers laugh.

— Biju Menon

I just try to be as nice as possible and make fun of myself and laugh at the jokes.

— Mikaela Shiffrin

If there is a chance to do so, I want to work with Stephen Chow in a romantic comedy film.

— Gong Hyo-jin

Many hundred-million-dollar Hollywood comedies aren't any good. They're trying to shock you.

— John Waters

I started as a stand-up comedian at charity shows in Mumbai.

— Johnny Lever

It is amazing that I'm making a career out of comedy, my family can't quite believe it.

— Joe Lycett

If I tried to do comedy for the rest of my career, I would not be very successful.

— Will Poulter

You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

— Paul Laffoley