Comedy Quotes · Page 334

When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

— Sherman Alexie

They [ The Simpsons] are just like the Bible to me as far as what the high-water mark of comedy.

— Eric Andre

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.

— John Kricfalusi

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

— Steven Pinker

Laugh until ur belly hurts & then just a little more

— Hemant Smarty

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.

— Tom Green

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

— Niels Bohr

There's no point fast-tracking performers on to TV before they're ready. In comedy especially, you need experience to be able to react…

— Chris McCausland

I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of…

— John Oliver

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is…

— Eugene Ionesco

“The moment vanity officially leaves your life is when you look down to discover an asslike configuration living where your front pockets…

— Rachel Dratch

I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several…

— LeRoy Neiman

I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof…

— Dylan Moran

I have been lucky enough to work in all kinds of comedy. I prefer working with other people. I could never do…

— June Whitfield

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you…

— Colin Quinn

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I…

— Carol Leifer

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.…

— Zach Woods

I would rather die than be in the United States Senate. I would be bored to death. Could you imagine me, banging…

— Chris Christie

I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and…

— George Lopez

There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes…

— Seth MacFarlane

The political arena is the funniest.They [politicians] are always pretending to change, but they never change. They're the best actors and actresses…

— Paul Mooney

“I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one’s circumstances, to see things…

— J Oswald Sanders

If you can laugh at the end of a hard day, you have succeeded it.

— Anonymous

“Happiness is so simple in life: If I laugh then you are laughing too.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

— Jorge Garcia

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

— George Ade

That awkward moment when you fail at being mad at somebody because they make you laugh.

— Anonymous

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

— John Leguizamo

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

— Kathy Griffin

I feel like I have a superpower - making people laugh. That's not something that everyone can do.

— Janelle James

The harder you try to be funny, the less funny you will be.

— Anonymous

I love comedy, and I'd love to do more of it, but I end up with the work I end up with.

— Aaron Pedersen

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

— Maya Angelou

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

— Robert Duncan McNeill

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

— Kevin Nealon

I love giggling more than anything in the world. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.

— Bert Kreischer

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

— Erma Bombeck

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

— Coby Bell