Comedy Quotes · Page 341

I've got a sense of humour but everyone is different.

— Antonio Rudiger

Comedy is changing. The appetite for more diverse stories is getting bigger.

— Lolly Adefope

We can find gentle humor in the most terrible circumstances and tenderness in the darkness.

— Anonymous

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

— Tiger Woods

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

— Davy Jones

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables”

— L.M. Montgomery

“The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.”

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

I love comedy, and I love listening to comedians talk.

— Sam Darnold

I think if you look back at all those great comedies on television in the past, it's all lovable losers that gathered…

— Matthew Perry

It's something that has informed quite a lot of my comedy - that idea of someone who is always trying to get…

— Jack Dee

I'm a funny guy. I want people to laugh. I laugh at myself, I make fun of myself. But at the end…

— Lil B

I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

— Ben Miller

When I started out in stand-up, I was already used to speaking in front of people, how to project, control my voice…

— Jaboukie Young-White

“get the giggles and let them loose like kamikaze fighters to die a glorious death against Bailey’s reprimanding glare.”

— Lori Adams

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

— John Ratzenberger

I don't chalk out my career thinking that I want to first do serious drama, then a comedy or an action. I…

— Kunal Khemu

Before doing stand-up, I thought acting was easy - it's not easy. It's a hard life. It's easy in its own way,…

— Jim Jefferies

“Some sleepers have intelligent faces even in sleep, while other faces, even intelligent ones, become very stupid in sleep and therefore ridiculous.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I was doing a college show for the first time, and there was this 20-year-old gay male who's been diabetic his entire…

— Jessica Williams

On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know…

— Adam Conover

There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or…

— Mindy Kaling

Personally I don't spend much time thinking about being funny. For me it's always been just a way to get by, a…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I had the feeling I had to stay focused on what's lying under. A big part of the story in Toni Erdmann…

— Maren Ade

Well people love to go dirty and stuff like that. It's funny, because even really dirty things can kind of inspire, but…

— Amy Poehler

Tragedy when ridiculed by comedy does not condescend a reply.

— Xenocrates

It's much harder to have a BBC One sitcom than to have a tour of stand-up.

— Lee Mack

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

— Chelsea Handler

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

— Joan Cusack

You know I had rather be laughed at than not to be noticed at all…

— P. T. Barnum

“Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.”

— Evinda Lepins

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

— Will Gluck

“Have you ever noticed what cheerful things brooks are? They're always laughing.”

— Anonymous

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

— Garry Shandling

“Myrtle Mae, you have a lot to learn, and I hope you never learn it.”

— Mary Chase

Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.

— Lita Grey Chaplin

I think humor is often a very powerful tool to be able to express ideas that are heavy.

— Camille Henrot

I have no problem in doing comedy, as I am happily consolidating my image of a comic actor.

— Kartik Aaryan

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

— Paul Merton

I'm not going to say the market is flooded, but there are a lot of people doing comedy.

— Neal Brennan

Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.

— Richelle Mead