I like doing comedy and I know people enjoy watching me doing comedy. So I have no problem doing it. In fact,… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
“Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I do like a well-written sketch with a bunch of jokes in it, and I like stand-up with good jokes in it… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems.… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I kind of decided I wanted to do comedy. My parents were musicians, so we traveled on… — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking… — Dan Wilbur Copy Share Image
I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Laugh when you want to cry and smile when you want to frown. - Quote I made up randomly¦ Not very good… — KousekiDokuro Copy Share Image
I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“This sent me into an inappropriate laughing fit. I wasn't allowed to get angry, and I couldn't cry, so I laughed -… — Monica Holloway Copy Share Image
Like, I feel like I'm funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
People who know me know that theres a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky. — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
I worked for the Comedy Store as an employee trying to become a paid regular. I had this dream of achieving a… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
When your time is good, your mistakes r taken as a joke. But When your time is bad, even your jokes r… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If we started thinking, 'Why's this funny?' we might start incorporating rules into it. I'd be suspicious that it would change the… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
I want to go places where there are really well-meaning people doing work that is interesting and seems to really matter and… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at 'The Best Man,' there's a lot of humor in that, but I never consider that movie a comedy.… — Malcolm D. Lee Copy Share Image
i fight with love and i laugh with rage…you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
“Cause there's always someone, somewhere With a big nose, who knows And trips you up and laugh when you fall” — Morrissey Copy Share Image
