Comedy Quotes · Page 331

While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

— Yahoo Serious

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

— Elvis Costello

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others

— Dave Barry

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

— David Sedaris

“Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.”

— Amit Kalantri

People get starstruck when they meet me, it's quite funny.

— Roger Lloyd-Pack

You can't study comedy; it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

— Don Rickles

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

— Rita Rudner

I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a…

— Jordan Peele

“I gotta go Seth, so I'll leave you to work on being nerdy and withdrawn.” “It's not as easy as it looks,…

— Charlie Fey

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where…

— Washington Irving

I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that's still one of my…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.

— Alan Mulally

I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump…

— Jim Carrey

I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that…

— Og Mandino

Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No…

— Bell Hooks

“I almost congratulate myself that I can at least laugh at my own foibles and enjoy the joke, just as I cannot…

— Wallace E. Baker

“But a system made secure by the protective plating of humor and pretense always runs the risk of having its protection get…

— Ken Kesey

Really, when people put together the highlight reels of the classic moments from 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld,' 'Cheers,' even 'MASH,' they're full of broad…

— Dan Schneider

Now, some people do this for shock value. Shock is just another uptown word for surprise. Granted it has a different quality…

— George Carlin

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that's because…

— Robert Klein

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.

— Steve Lukather

'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.

— Robert Ben Garant

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

— Russell Howard

“Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression.”

— Deyth Banger

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

— Freya Stark

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

— John Cameron Mitchell

All that I'm ever after is a life full of laughter, as long as I'm laughing with you.

— James

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

— Brené Brown

That's hard to write something that makes you laugh out loud.

— Janelle James

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's funny being the big news every day - and the good news every day.

— Charlie Adam

It also had trouble trouble We owe us laugh every time

— Anonymous

I bet skinny Jonah Hilll isn't as funny as fat Jonah Hill.

— Jonah Hill

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

— Eric Idle

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

— Mike Myers

You can joke about anything. It just depends on your angle and the way you go about it.

— Richard Herring