Comedy Quotes · Page 333

There's no harm in talking to yourself, but try to avoid telling yourself jokes you've heard before.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them.”

— Michelle Lovric

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

— Ted Alexandro

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

— Robert Klein

It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.

— Craig David

Learn to laugh in the face of heartbreak , turn awkward to awesome !!!

— Anonymous

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

— Josh Widdicombe

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

— Abraham Lincoln

I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do…

— Aasif Mandvi

I don't see myself doing any comedies. I like comedies as much as anyone else; I just don't really have a desire…

— Brad Anderson

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will…

— Gene Wilder

It's okay for me to make jokes about disabled people and people with horrible diseases because they make me uncomfortable, and I…

— Tom Segura

'Tangerine' taught me that if you win an audience over with comedy, then hopefully have a soulful message at the same time.

— Sean Baker

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying…

— Jim Norton

“Humans are so Funny. So much moralising about words while at the same time thinking it perfectly "moral" to pepper-bomb cities full…

— David Icke

You can't teach a person to be funny unless you teach him how to swipe someone else's material. To be a success…

— Soupy Sales

He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot."…

— Bill Engvall

I can do jokes sometimes where I feel like I'm being mean to a person - it's not like they're there -…

— Nate Bargatze

The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient…

— Thurman Arnold

Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.…

— Aimee Garcia

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various…

— Desiderius Erasmus

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps…

— Mervyn Peake

I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say…

— Lindy West

With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And…

— Callie Khouri

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves. Don't take life too seriously.

— Geri Halliwell

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

— Jason O'Mara

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

— Vera Farmiga

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

— Vivica A. Fox

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a…

— George Harrison

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

— D'Arcy Carden

There's nothing funnier to me than reading people analyze 'David Pumpkins.'

— Mikey Day

“Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?”

— Sol Luckman

I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I'm not a politician.

— Sara Pascoe

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

— Charles M. Schulz

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

— Steve Coogan

Laughter is the best medicine to cure a wounded heart.

— Anonymous

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

— Steve Martin

The darker the film, the more vital everyone's sense of humor is on set.

— Eric Bana

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

— Martha Graham

My only agenda is trying to make you laugh and say something smart.

— Iliza Shlesinger