It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol'… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
For a movie's success, comedy must blend with the storyline. Else, comedy might click but the movie will die. — Thambi Ramaiah Copy Share Image
I have a half-hour special on Comedy Central, but so many people have half-hour specials now, and it's not so 'special.' — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
Last Comic Standing was a great opportunity and it was a great learning experience. Even though I didn't win, I've had more… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about picture hunters, I very quietly laugh. I'm not a hunter of pictures, I'm a fisher of… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the… — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
“He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
For people who have done comedy after a certain point in time, I think there's a base level of, 'O.K., I think… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm… — Nathalie Emmanuel Copy Share Image
I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I'm doing nothing, but... hanging out with clever… — Al Murray Copy Share Image
Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to go see a comedian if he was using the same jokes. So I'm not going out there trying… — Matt Sydal Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
[Lauren Ambrose's] character [in Can't Hardly Wait] feels real and unexaggerated and becomes sort of a heroine archetype. I think that was… — David Krumholtz Copy Share Image
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
The thing is, I always thought I could do stand-up, and so I just stayed focused on the belief that I could… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
I love doing comedy. You don't get many good comedy scripts. They're rare. But, I do love playing comedy. Even in drama,… — Colm Meaney Copy Share Image
Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“The relations of a joker to his joke should be as quick and desultory as those of a bee to its flowers.” — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult… — Allison Jones Copy Share Image
Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
Even in comedy, I'm always the straight guy, which is okay because that's a skill. But it would be nice to get… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation. — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
“Maybe we women gravitate toward comedy because it is a socially acceptable way to break rules and a release from our daily… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'm really depressing. Some people watch comedy to relax. I watch 21 Grams. I can recognize sadness and tragedy really easily because… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
Do you deny it?" Grimani persisted. Deny it? Only the greatest self-restraint prevents me from laughing it out of countenance. — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so… — Berenice Marlohe Copy Share Image
What really excites me is the prospect of making people actually enjoy thinking about difficult topics, to laugh even while seriously engaging… — ContraPoints Copy Share Image
Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and… — Mario Lopez Copy Share Image
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I get this weird energy that starts in my feet and goes up and fills my head, and I just want to… — Bert Kreischer Copy Share Image
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar. — Max Eastman Copy Share Image
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