Comedy Quotes · Page 343

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

— Maureen O'Hara

Where I cannot satisfy my reason, I love to humour my fancy.

— Thomas Browne

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

— Taylor Momsen

Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.

— Liz Curtis Higgs

Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears.

— Dick Gregory

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

— Tom Robbins

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

— George Meyer

I'm a big fan of comedy such as Cendric the Entertainer.

— Rikishi

If someone doesn't like a comedian that's fine; a lot of people probably don't like my standup, and that's fine. But I…

— Jim Norton

My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy…

— Warren Ellis

I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like…

— Jack Lemmon

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica…

— Tina Fey

Like Dilip Kumar, I've never run after money but only after good roles and that's why have always rebelled against those directors…

— Asrani

I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of…

— Corey Hawkins

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in…

— Charles Dickens

You gotta have fun with a song, make somebody laugh. You gotta have character. A hard punchline can make you laugh, but…

— Takeoff

So much of comedy happens between your chin and your shoulders. Nobody tells you when you get your own TV show that…

— Lennon Parham

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a…

— Betty Buckley

The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy…

— Matt McGorry

I was never consciously rebellious but I suppose comedy is a sort of act of rebellion isnt it? Coming from a quite…

— Hugh Dennis

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock -…

— Robin Williams

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it.…

— Paul F. Tompkins

The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance.…

— Philip French

There's a theory with comedy that you shouldn't do anything that's too topical in your specials because people won't be able to…

— Jim Jefferies

I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy.

— Ridley Scott

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

— David Hyde Pierce

Really hard laughs, they've gotta make you live longer or something.

— Ben Falcone

Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming.

— Steve Martin

That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny.

— Michael Jai White

There's a difference between delivering real funny and just silly funny.

— Lil Rel Howery

So make your jokes, go for broke, blow your smoke your not alone.. but whos laughing now

— Jessie J

“He decided that for an ounce of that laughter, he could sacrifice an entire lifetime of happiness.”

— Faraaz Kazi

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

— Christopher Guest

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

— Russell Brand

Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.

— Bill Maher

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

— Peter Sellers

Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

— Bill Cosby

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

— Andrew Buchan

It isn't he who laughs last, but he whose laugh lasts.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder