Comedy Quotes · Page 327

Marissa is one of the fan favorites of 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' for everyone throughout the years.

— Lennon Parham

We are all only Gods joke here having the same punch line.

— Vikrant Parsai

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

— Bill Cosby

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

— Jamie Foxx

I know the musical world as well as I know the comedy world.

— Tommy Chong

“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.”

— Amit Kalantri

I don’t like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors.

— Neil Simon

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't…

— Bob Newhart

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

— Eugene Ionesco

The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events…

— Frederick Lenz

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way…

— Damien Hirst

Growing up in Iowa, there weren't many people who looked like me. And then when I moved out to L.A., every guy…

— Paul Rust

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The rendering of my thoughts, emotions, and experiences is part comedy and part tragedy as well as history, for life is such…

— Karen Harper

Since 'The Office,' everyone has this idea that comedy is only good if it reflects the way people really speak. But that's…

— Lee Mack

They are cheaper to make and easier to do; you can just cram in loads of talent into a format that works…

— Natasia Demetriou

I think it's a slightly crazy time actually, it's very difficult to satirise because each of politicians is in their own way…

— Armando Iannucci

It's not easy to make people laugh. You can make people cry, there are are universal things that we all feel; a…

— Asim Chaudhry

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and…

— James Wolcott

“Laughter paves the way for many things. It's one way to build intimacy between people, something every healthy team needs. Humor has…

— Berkun, Scott

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue…

— Kenny Omega

The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but…

— Josh Widdicombe

“He said he wouldn’t stay, as he didn’t care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as…

— George Grossmith

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

— Chris Rock

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

— David Sedaris

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

— Anonymous

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

— David Sedaris

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

— Mahogany SilverRain

My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament!

— Nick Kler

Audiences want comedy that has no venom. They want to have a laugh without it becoming twee.

— Peter Kay

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

— Rooney Mara

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

— Steven Wright

“I laughed at them. Not because I thought they had no power to harm me, but because they had.”

— Mark Lawrence

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

— David Steinberg

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

— Christopher Meloni

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

— George Santayana

“People with senses of humor always have perspective.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh

— Sophie Marceau

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

— Wyatt Cenac