Comedy Quotes · Page 306

My dad always said to me, 'You have got to work,' so I constantly worked and did comedy tours.

— Lee Evans

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

— Peter Steele

I never really tried comedy, so it was exciting to be part of one and to challenge myself that way.

— Lee Je-hoon

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

— Sophie Swetchine

I love the people who can make me laugh when I think I can't even smile.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.

— Colleen Hoover

Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

— Eric Bentley

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

— Jasper Fforde

The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of us [comedians] are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about…

— Barry Crimmins

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

— Adam McKay

The thing with physical comedy is that you have to actually try to do the thing you're trying to do - you…

— Jessica St. Clair

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite,…

— Dick Cavett

If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject- you will increase the number of people laughing by at least…

— Joe Harsel

When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's…

— Freddie Highmore

I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.

— Maz Jobrani

“Obviously the name of the show is a joke, a friend of mine gave it to me. But some people are very…

— Greg Proops

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form…

— Gene Kelly

How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like…

— Hilaire Belloc

You aim comedy up. If comedy is aimed down, you're a jerk. You laugh at the powerful as a way of bringing…

— Haroon Moghul

When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can…

— Barry Hannah

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body…

— David Levithan

I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about…

— Jim Rash

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

— Aristophanes

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

— Gabriel Iglesias

I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.

— Abraham Lincoln

“The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

— Dave Attell

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, naturists don't.”

— Roy Station

“. . . I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.”

— Gayle Forman

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

— Ted Alexandro

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

— Anonymous

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

— Elvis Costello

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

— Michael Caine

“You already are,” he laughed. “At least you’re a likable crazy person though.”

— Christin Lovell

It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy.

— Lorne Michaels

I always had a wicked streak in me, the sadist side in me also comes in my comedy films.

— Chunky Pandey

I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

— John Oliver