Comedy Quotes · Page 313

This is something people don't realize about me, but I can laugh - and laugh at myself.

— Christian Laettner

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

— Mel Brooks

Not all times jokes intended to make you laugh. Sometimes they intended to make you think.

— Anonymous

Comedy is a lot of fun if you have costars who can help you perform better.

— Lara Dutta

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

— Patricia Montandon

I started comedy as a hobby with no intention of making it my career.

— Ellie Taylor

That's the thing, you see, we were never good enough to write proper punchlines.

— Bob Mortimer

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

— Margaret Cho

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so…

— Laura Vandervoort

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon…

— Marcel Proust

We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide,…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

You know, a comedian's comedian is just that - it's a guy who's original and funny and can make comics laugh.

— Jim Norton

Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each…

— Ronnie Apteker

I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a…

— Eugene Levy

Even when I do comedy, since I have no training in stand-up, I always approach a character like a character and not…

— Sunil Grover

Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy.…

— Harry Shearer

I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,'…

— Eliza Coupe

January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by…

— Hari Kondabolu

“I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being…

— Laurence Sterne

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing…

— Barry Humphries

'S.N.L.' is the comedy establishment. Of course you want to go through that, because you want that stamp of approval. But it…

— Noel Wells

“I cannot understand the principle at all,' said Stephen. 'I should very much like to show it to Captain Aubrey, who is…

— Patrick O'Brian

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself…

— James Thurber

Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to…

— Burhan Sonmez

I don't think comedians are better travellers but they are communicators and storytellers.

— David Baddiel

“I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.”

— Michael P. Naughton

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do…

— Adam Carolla

I'll never forget my first words in the theatre. "Peanuts. Popcorn."

— Henny Youngman

I'd rather live laughing for one year than live without laughing for one hundred.

— Sarah Rees Brennan

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

— Tom Hanks

I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

— Bernie Mac

“Who are you and how did you get in here?" "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.”

— Leslie Nielsen

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

— Agnes Repplier

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

— Jack Dee

“When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.”

— Alan Cohen

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

— Lily Tomlin

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.

— John W. Foster

That moment when you want to cry but you laugh instead.

— Anonymous

I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I'm not too keen on jokes that are one-liners. I want the situation to be funny.

— Philippe Falardeau