Comedy Quotes · Page 316

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it

— Tom Berenger

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.

— Anita Loos

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

— Will Rogers

Always laugh heartily at the jokes your boss tells, it maybe a loyalty test.

— Anonymous

T.J. Miller and Kumail Nanjiani I met when I was in Chicago, learning how to do comedy.

— Thomas Middleditch

I was trying for years to woo people through humour, but it seems flash cars are much easier.

— Stephen Merchant

Sense of humour is a tremendous power of the spirit.

— Kishore Bansal

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

— Wanda Sykes

I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.

— Mike Birbiglia

When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy, I just laughed. Funny…

— Michael Keaton

I prefer comedy, as I have to act while playing a gangster. I have to put in a lot of effort to…

— Pankaj Tripathi

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and…

— Rob Delaney

I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

“Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused,'" Gabriel quoted. "One of the unrecorded…

— Terri Garey

People have loved my comic antics and I will bring all that together to add more fun to this show 'Mad In…

— Sunil Grover

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but…

— Takeshi Kitano

[on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really…

— Ed Asner

When I first graduated college, I told my parents I'd try to pursue comedy for the first year or two, and if…

— Ben Schwartz

You know what, I think maybe it's because men like to fart, and the host wants to be able to sit in…

— Wanda Sykes

I'm a creature of adaptation. I take advantage of the second and the moment. My comedy breathes; it's not really that predictable.…

— Tommy Davidson

A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When…

— Rajneesh

I did a guest shot on a comedy series where they did 20 to 30 takes of everything. It's just gone by…

— Dick Van Dyke

George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like…

— Jimmy Fallon

I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact…

— Mindy Kaling

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

— Dylan Moran

A lot of the times, anything that somebody tries to say negative is actually kind of funny.

— Sage Northcutt

Have you considered the option of getting the joke? If not, try it now and redeem your soul.

— Erik Naggum

All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

— Lord Byron

Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect.

— Chris Rock

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Why can't people credit that he and all of us had a sense of humour?

— Ingrid Thulin

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

— Lady Margaret Sackville

Healthy relationship produces more laughters than tears.

— Mielya Saladdin

“laugh uproariously. Dar and Aud looked back to see what”

— Sandra Hill

Of all the band of personal traitors the sense of humor is the most dangerous.

— Margery Allingham

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

— Faith Prince

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

— Albert Ellis

Communist until you get rich, feminist until you get married, atheist until the airplane starts falling

— Juanda Brahma Metta

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

— George Carlin

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

— Eddie Huang