Comedy Quotes · Page 309

Azhar Usman is a true original and will laugh the hate right out of you.

— Louie Anderson

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

— Matt Stone

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

— Erica Jong

I am happy that people are spending time on creating jokes on me.

— Alok Nath

With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.

— Craig Ferguson

“Luckily, I was not born a white man.* *This has never before been said in the history of humanity.”

— Mindy Kaling

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

— Jean Kennedy Smith

I just got cursed out via text and couldn't do anything but laugh, my friends love me.

— Anonymous

If your master is surly, from getting up early (And tempers are short in the morning), An inopportune joke is enough to…

— W. S. Gilbert

A lot of people have got into it because of money, but true comedians do it because they can't help it, and…

— Peter Kay

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'...

— Bill Hicks

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch…

— Demetri Martin

[Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

— Keith Carradine

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still…

— Julie Walters

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

— George Mikes

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of…

— William Hazlitt

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it…

— Christopher Moore

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I'm very hip-oriented. I focus on hips in my comedy - probably more than any other hipster comic who is out there…

— Demetri Martin

I've never been funny. I don't think I'm funny. People say I'm funny. I go, 'No. No. I'm not.' But again, knowing…

— Tamlyn Tomita

“In the center of the room Sarra the demon hung upside down by one leg, its arms bound behind its back, its…

— Katie MacAlister

It's completely unsexy [Yello, "Oh Yeah" 1985]. It does capture that weird '80s materialism and "We're gonna get it on now" vibe.…

— Margaret Cho

I find that I'm just drawn to anything that's going to challenge me as an actress. So any time I get a…

— Audra McDonald

Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“sweeter than joy itself, for the heart of the laugh was love.”

— George MacDonald

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

— George Eliot

Comedy is a way of hiding - especially character comedy.

— Lenny Henry

For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.

— Chris Rock

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

— Allen Klein

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

— Bill Hader

If you don't have comedy in a movie, you don't have a movie.

— Theodore Melfi

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

— Annie Leibovitz

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

— Chuck Jones

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

— Doug Stanhope

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

— Eugenia Price

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

— Joan Rivers

I have touched all genres, be it comedy, tragedy or negative roles.

— Himani Shivpuri

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

— Dan Stevens

“Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.”

— Lorrie Moore