Comedy Quotes · Page 328

I watch a lot of comedy; I'm a comedy nerd and have watched a lot of it over the years.

— Lauren Ash

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

— John Oliver

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

— Miranda Hart

There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.

— Ron Shock

“All I could do was laugh, but it wasn’t funny. I find it incredibly sad to be tickled by an orphan.”

— Jarod Kintz

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

— Emily Yoffe

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

— Tom Walsh

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's…

— Eva Longoria

You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully…

— Harold Ramis

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that…

— Rob Lowe

It's a dystopian world where things aren't connected. But life feels light when we can communicate, joke or laugh on ourselves.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or…

— Lenny Bruce

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without…

— Al Franken

I love comedy and my characters in Sandip Ray's 'Jekhane Bhooter Bhoy' and Anik Dutta's 'Bhooter Bhobisyot' had comic elements and I…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what…

— Dave Attell

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so…

— Milan Kundera

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It…

— Robin Williams

The Syfy channel was looking for a show to run alongside 'Ghost Hunters' and investigate the paranormal in a different way. For…

— Josh Gates

I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different…

— Paula Patton

Standups always like the room cold, and if you're shooting a sitcom live you want it a little bit chilly for the…

— Jesse Armstrong

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was…

— Steve Martin

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer.

— Chris Rock

The best stand-up people are willing to be completely transparent in certain ways.

— Eva Victor

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

— Anonymous

When the joke is on you, your sense of humour gets a reality check.

— Nikhil Saluja

I like talking to myself, answering myself, and laughing at my own jokes.

— Hussein Nishah

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

— Rex Stout

I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.

— J-Hope

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

— Charlie Chaplin

No laughs hey? I know the act smells, but I'm right on top of it and you don't hear me complain.

— Anonymous

If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.

— Shawn Wayans

Life has a funny way of letting things fall into place when you least expect it.

— Christina Anstead

My life is a joke with pain. My pain seems to be peoples' humor.

— Anonymous

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

— Anonymous

I do like a joke too, in my own way, but I'm someone who likes to work away in peace.

— Douglas Costa

To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.

— Milton Jones

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone elses can shorten it.

— Anonymous