And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
If you can't laugh at your own characters, or shed a tear for them, or even get angry at one of them,… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
If you are cracking a joke on me and in counter cannot take a joke when I am cracking on you, then,… — Kiku Sharda Copy Share Image
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness. — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of the people and things that are considered the epitomes of tastelessness - things like drag and raunchy… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
All my friends are funny, witty, fun-loving people. As are my parents, and the people I work with. I get at least… — Toks Olagundoye Copy Share Image
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes ofa continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So,… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So,… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
I think all Internet comments should be disengaged. But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not… — Harris Wittels Copy Share Image
“ 'Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe… — Debbie Blue Copy Share Image
I don't want to do the same thing all the time, and I was thrilled to bits to do a BBC comedy.… — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make… — Kellie Pickler Copy Share Image
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way.… — Eugene Levy Copy Share Image
We [me and Eugene Levy] both try to play the reality of a moment and don't try to impose humor on something… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is closer to… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this… — Famke Janssen Copy Share Image
I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it… — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar… — Phil LaMarr Copy Share Image
“A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which you realize that you are trapped in a world almost… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
I'm happy to try any genre, from drama to comedy and anything in between. Although, to be fair, for most of my… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never… — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
The best joke-tellers are those who have the patience to wait for conversation to come around to the point where the jokes… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high. — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
Since I can remember, I always had some sort of social media where I would post memes and humorous things for my… — Alex Consani Copy Share Image
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image