Comedy Quotes · Page 315

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I wanted to do work that elevated. Otherwise, it's cheap funny. It's dirty funny. It's degrading funny.

— Monica Horan

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny.

— Peter Farrelly

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I'm pretty equal opportunity when it comes to issues to joke about.

— Elayne Boosler

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

— Billy Eichner

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

— Christa Miller

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

— Sid Caesar

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the…

— Ellen DeGeneres

“Isn’t life funny. It could drive you crazy if you thought about it too much. Turn this way and that happens. Turn…

— Elizabeth Berg

So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth…

— Olivia Wilde

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.”

— Sharon E. Rainey

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to…

— John Cusack

“It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of…

— Jim Jefferies

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up…

— Joseph Addison

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common…

— Clive James

What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that…

— Mel Brooks

I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to…

— David Gordon Green

Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a…

— Ted Loder

My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known…

— Derek Mears

Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information…

— Keegan-Michael Key

I have this JPM thing: jokes per minute. I've worked out that I should get in about 12 punchlines in five minutes.…

— Frank Skinner

I did a lot of theatre when I started out. It was the Lyceum, the Citz, the Tron and the Traverse. I…

— Ashley Jensen

It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep.

— Robert Anton Wilson

People get mad at bad comedy. Way more mad than at bad novels.

— Ari Shaffir

In Hollywood, it's hard to be funny, because all the big jokes are in Washington.

— Rich Little

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

— Louis C. K

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

— Dane Cook

Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.

— David Niven

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

— Robert Orben

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.

— Nicole Byer

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

— Meg Rosoff

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

— Casey Wilson

My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

— Adam Brody

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

— Edward Abbey

It doesn't get better than making people laugh and also making sure people don't go hungry.

— Colin Jost

Bob and I got into comedy in a similar way. On the coat-tails of our mates.

— Paul Whitehouse