Comedy Quotes · Page 347

I think in order to understand what works dramatically, you have to have a sense of humor.

— Ayo Edebiri

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

— William Shatner

I always loved comedy growing up, I didnt watch a lot of drama.

— Renee Rapp

I'm a comic and I'm having way too much fun with the comedy. I do the music for myself.

— Eddie Griffin

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

— Bertolt Brecht

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

— Bill Burr

“trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.”

— Kate Atkinson

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that…

— Carrot Top

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason…

— Thomas Carlyle

I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches…

— Ted Alexandro

The people in my audiences are people who never go to comedy clubs. They've grown up with me. They come out to…

— Soupy Sales

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and…

— Armando Iannucci

The best comedy advice in the beginning of my career was get onstage every night, as many times as possible. It's the…

— Taylor Tomlinson

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven…

— Jim Valvano

I know you don't smoke weed, I know this; but I'm gonna get you high today, 'cause it's Friday; you ain't got…

— Chris Tucker

A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant…

— Maureen Corrigan

I sometimes wonder, the tendency for anybody, especially when you're with friends and you're in the trenches, is to laugh at the…

— Christopher Daniels

An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American…

— Terry Gross

Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is…

— Debra Messing

Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had…

— Andrew Denton

“Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe…

— Scott Turow

I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that…

— Denis Leary

“Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old…

— Larry P. Aitken

I was crazy about silent comedy - in the old days, and crazy about Japanese movies.

— Keith Johnstone

“If you try a joke a second time and nobody laughs, don’t tell a different joke—tell different people.”

— Jarod Kintz

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

— Rajneesh

I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.

— Craig Thompson

Sometimes the best cure for life’s woes is a sense of humor.

— Frank K. Sonnenberg

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

— Peter Baynham

I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical.

— Mike Birbiglia

If we tried to analyse our comedy, we might stop being any good at it.

— Vic Reeves

“Your own shortcomings are the best ground to grow your sense of humor.”

— Stu Konigsberg

“If you learn to laugh at yourself, you'll be entertained for a lifetime.”

— Lee McLaughlin

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

— Sarah Silverman

Laughter is the best medicine...next to Oxycontin...and of course medicinal marijuana.

— Anonymous

There's a difference between hiring writers and stealing jokes.

— Chris Cubas

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

— Chris Rock

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

— Al Franken

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

— Anonymous