The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Whereas acting, you have to wait for someone else to give you the opportunity to do it, in comedy, you can just… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I don't like people doing jokes about disabled people for no good reason, but I can still understand why they do them. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh at some people's immaturity, it just makes you realize how much growing up… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make… — David Wain Copy Share Image
I think we must be very careful not to make our daughters despise men. For example, there is too much comedy around… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities.… — Aimee Garcia Copy Share Image
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient… — Thurman Arnold Copy Share Image
I can do jokes sometimes where I feel like I'm being mean to a person - it's not like they're there -… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
I feel like women in comedy have staked out space for themselves and circled the wagons in this inspiring way to say… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“Shorn of intimacy and seen from a considerable distance, we are all comic characters, farcical buffoons who bumble through our lives, making… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever… — Scot Armstrong Copy Share Image
Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do. — Kevin Dillon Copy Share Image
No, broadly speaking there is no average age in comedy, which is very refreshing. Any stress over success vis-a-vis age in comedy… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
“He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.” — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I'm The Kind Of Girl That Will Burst Out Laughing In Complete Silence About Something That Happened Yesterday ... LOL — I :P Copy Share Image
I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn't ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
I came to Vegas because I wanted to, not because I thought it could help my career. I didn't even know they… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
The best advice he ever gave me was to keep it real, keep it simple. He was a big believer in not… — Andy Dick Copy Share Image
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
My definitions of comedy, drama, and straight man are all blurry for me. I don't think of it in those terms. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I want to do comedy, I want to do a negative character. I want to keep surprising the audience. I want to… — Arjun Mathur Copy Share Image
I absolutely love doing comedy, however, of course as an actor, I would love the opportunity to do more dramatic roles. — David Faustino Copy Share Image
I have to have people around who are of a certain strain of humour. I can't deal with people who have no… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
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