There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place. — Aries Spears Copy Share Image
I have wanted to expand not only my comedy but also build a world with the many talented comedians I know. — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of… — Charles Walters Copy Share Image
The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
SNL' and 'Half-Baked' came and certainly brought me a bigger audience. But I lost the perspective of being a real good comedian. — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
I had a client who just wanted to entertain me the whole time, that is a defense against going deep, in my… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
“Maybe he couldn't understand why we weren't able to laugh yet, but he knew you can't really be strong until you see… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
My road to success was a long road to success was a long road. You get out of something what you put… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I was the female lead in a romantic comedy. It's a little indie film that we shot in China called 'America Town,'… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I don't want to do 20 minutes on Donald Trump. I want to do 10 minutes and move on. I wouldn't even… — David Cross Copy Share Image
The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to… — Ruth Buzzi Copy Share Image
Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If I am known as a comedian or I get to be known as one, it is because of one of two… — Rajpal Yadav Copy Share Image
Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that,… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh,… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
No matter what the situation is - even if it's something that's not overly funny - people in Derry can always find… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If you see our films like 'Coolie No 1,' 'Hero No 1' and 'Biwi No 1,' there is a very good story… — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I wasn't the crazy kid bouncing off the walls, I would just sit back a make comments and I made people laugh. — Tom Segura Copy Share Image
I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable. — Moshe Waldoks Copy Share Image
I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect… — Amy Hoggart Copy Share Image
