Comedy Quotes · Page 307

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

— Cass McCombs

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do for an actor, I am looking forward to the challenge.

— Varun Sandesh

Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

— David Gemmell

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

— Paul Feig

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

— Dorothy Dix

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

— Sean O'Casey

“When too much is too much or too bad is too bad, we laugh as if it was too good.”

— Tracy Kidder

“If you don’t learn to laugh at yourself, You'll miss out on a lot of good jokes in life.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

With '2 Dope Queens,' with stand-up, and also with 'Sooo Many White Guys,' the interview stuff that I do, I really am…

— Phoebe Robinson

“Søren laughed softly. Kingsley loved making Søren laugh. Kingsley theorized the whole course of human evolution had led to Søren, and when…

— Anonymous

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

— Brenda Ueland

I always loved comedy, but in my mind, it wasn't a viable career option. I always thought, 'You go to college. You…

— Michelle Wolf

I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.

— Colin Firth

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in…

— Kathryn Hahn

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

— Steve Allen

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for…

— Jo Brand

I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different…

— Frank Oz

Today's generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a…

— Ashok Saraf

Have interesting failures… If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take…

— Garrison Keillor

My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to…

— Chelsea Handler

We just, you know, we're just sort of doing it like Bewitched, because we just think that the character of Kenny is…

— Debra Messing

All I can say is I've been reading the lips of bleeped-out words, angry baseball players, and stoned-out rock stars on awards…

— Marlee Matlin

I'm actually not funny. I'm just really mean and people think I'm joking.

— Anonymous

I think there's too many gay jokes in comedy and not enough honest explorations of sexuality.

— Chris Gethard

You can't stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.

— Anita Dobson

I wouldn't mind having another shot at doing comedy, but I'm not sure that's the way I'd want to go.

— David Morse

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

— Anonymous

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Comedy should be fluid. It should be both Left and Right wing.

— Bill Bailey

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

— Sue Perkins

“When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.”

— Thomas Flindt

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.

— Barbara Park

Good humor is the health of the soul, is sadness its poison.

— Anonymous

But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.

— Terry Wogan

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

— Sharon Horgan

My punchlines weigh sick in a hospital scale , so in a battle I send my oppenent to hell

— Static Flow

I'd never been the class clown and comedy was not a fulfilment of a dream.

— Sean Lock

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first.

— Jimmy Nail