Comedy Quotes · Page 345

If there's an intelligence behind the joke - - it's a good joke.

— Eric Andre

When I hear you laugh,i want laugh too even if I am sad

— Josephine

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

— Staton Rabin

I'm always more motivated by the pain of a funny character than by what makes him funny.

— Jason Alexander

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— Bo Burnham

Comedy is all about having a point of view, and it's also about power.

— Judy Gold

I start to giggle when I hear someone call me Baroness Grey-Thompson.

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

— Jerome Lawrence

I'm often confronted with people being like, 'Ahhh, drama is killing comedy.' It's not, it's a different genre.

— Jamie Demetriou

I love drama - I would say more than I even love comedy - but I like in One Mississippi that I…

— Tig Notaro

I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares?…

— Monica Bellucci

I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the…

— Jimmy Carr

“Laughing like crazy the child goes back to the city gives birth to monsters creates earthquakes hairy women run naked old folks…

— Nicanor Parra

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in…

— Jeff Dunham

The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most…

— Larenz Tate

Earlier I've done hatever I could get my hands on to do for a living. I tried a couple of different things,…

— Mitch Hedberg

I worked in a call centre for three-and-a-half years. I've tried to find something funny to include in my stand-up but I…

— Chris McCausland

The global economy is becoming a place where women are more successful than men, and these economic changes are starting to rapidly…

— Hanna Rosin

When I try to be funny, it always makes me more nervous that I'm trying too hard, and then my brain that…

— Coy Bowles

“They trigger creativity, because they make us so vulnerable and open our heart to become its large self. Buddhist philosopher Joanna Macy…

— Matthew Fox

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never…

— Jeff Daniels

“Humor is a developed sense, stemming basically from cruelty. The more primitive a mind, the less selectivity exists. … A man slips…

— Lewis Padgett

There's comedy in tragedy, and tragedy in comedy. There's always light and dark in most jobs. Whether it's framed as a comedy,…

— Harry Treadaway

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

— Paul McCartney

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

— Phyllis Diller

“To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.”

— Ilyas Kassam

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny.

— Joan Rivers

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

— Anonymous

I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.

— Will Cuppy

I really believe that comedy is an incredible tool, and you can use it in many ways.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I love the really deep, rip-your-soul-to-shreds stuff, but I also love the romantic comedy.

— Asher Keddie

If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

— Ted Nugent

I've joked for years I want to land a TV show so I can finance my theater habit.

— Christopher Jackson

And what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke.

— Syd Barrett

The more you laugh, the healthier you are. You must laugh more!

— Marshall Sylver

Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.

— Thomas Lansing Masson

Although I'm a comedian, I'm also an amateur survivalist.

— Nick Kroll

It is so important to have the cushioning of humour in one's life for a smooth run.

— Shankar Mahadevan