I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Now, because of this big backdrop that we've given ourselves, these little personal, human details take on a whole new context and… — Jason Winer Copy Share Image
Comedy isn't just timing; it's about rooting out the funny in the real. You just bend reality to the left a little. — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
Comedy actually is quite difficult to do. The timing, the tone, the delivery, and the precise expressions are all very crucial, especially… — Nushrat Bharucha Copy Share Image
The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
“In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it.… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
My favorite movies are all romantic comedies. I love the romantic comedies. I'd still have to say Pretty Woman. I still think… — Teryl Rothery Copy Share Image
I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When a joke works, it works. It can make a point in a really simple way; it can be a great little… — Jon Lovett Copy Share Image
Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning!… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
It started when I did a 20-minute act in the comedy clubs and only had enough material for 17 minutes, so I… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
“The Joke...Audience as reflexive cast; 35 mm. X2 cameras;variable length; black and white, silent. Parody of Hollis Frampton’s ‘audience-specific events,’ two Ikegami… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
He knows all the golf lingo. You know? You hit your ball, he's like "there's a golf shot. That's a golf shot."… — Bill Engvall Copy Share Image
Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively.… — Aleksey Igudesman Copy Share Image
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
“You’d be surprised how often we see this injury in New York,' he told me. The deli-flowers-rubber-band-eye-snap thing. Beware.” — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
You know what my philosophy of life is? That it’s important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
In the world of comedy, there's this: "If it's going badly, get off. If it's going well, get off". You can't argue… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world. — Piero Scaruffi Copy Share Image
I like to write a joke without any fat on it.The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
Stand-up for me is just my opinions on things, so it wouldnt be as fun translated into a sketch. Nor would a… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it. — B. J. Porter Copy Share Image
My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I'm very wary of doing political stuff for a lot of reasons. One of the big ones is that the shelf-life for… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I loved 'Penny Spubbs' and 'We Are Klang,' maybe because I watched them before I started comedy so it was a purer… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others.… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
I'm just a comedian. I don't have all the answers. But I'm not just looking for them online. I'm looking around me. — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
“Act always as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
“He began to understand suddenly what friends were for: they reminded you that things weren't so bad after all. Reminded you never… — S.J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
Their demeanor is invariably morose, sullen, clownish and repulsive. I should think there is not, on the face of the earth, a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
