You know, the comedy industry in the U.K. is quite a small place, and lines such as 'sketch is dead' get thrown… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
“For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping may something have been left, Which must die now.” — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Not the Nine O'Clock News' was the first comedy show I truly responded to when I was a teenager. I watched it… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy... It's a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
It's nice to find people who live on the fringe, finding one another and she's just unrelentingly funny. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
If comedy can be both - silly and fun but also say something and start a dialogue - that's the most you… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
“Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm starting to play lots more naturalistic, realistic people than when I first started. Maybe because I was doing character comedy shows,… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that the films I've worked on in the horror genre are themselves not pure horror, and have allowed… — Douglas Pipes Copy Share Image
Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
I was watching Animal Planet. Did you know that the male seahorse has the baby? And I was thinking, "Why don't they… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
“And how should we behave during this Apocalypse? We should be unusually kind to one another, certainly. But we should also stop… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The ability to find the funny pumps oxygen into adverse situations. Its hard to cower when youre laughing. Its hard to be… — Elaine Smookler Copy Share Image
It requires a lot of courage for someone to cast me in something else. I am just hoping that someone sees something… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
“Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“At the same time he was laughing, Ig was distressed. Not liking the Beatles was almost as bad as not knowing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love. — Orville Prescott Copy Share Image
Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half… — Josh Homme Copy Share Image
The beauty of comedy is you can really push things. Hopefully, you're with people with a sense of humor and can relate… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
'I, Malvolio' is a very, very funny show, a clown show, but there is Beckettian darkness in the character. Some real darkness,… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place. — Aries Spears Copy Share Image
“He immediately went down with a thud and I was pretty certain most of the furniture in the room jumped when he… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
You would think doing comedy would be nerve wracking, but punting and kicking footballs gets me more nervous. — Pat McAfee Copy Share Image
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Here's a good joke to do during an earthquake: straddle a big crack in the ground, and if it opened wider, go… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one… — Topher Grace Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely. — Helen Cresswell Copy Share Image
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film.… — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
I would love to do a drama. I did a couple of episodes of The Good Wife, which is more of a… — Zach Woods Copy Share Image
I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than… — Melissa McCarthy Copy Share Image
Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“You are the first person who has ever made me laugh when it was the absolute last thing I wanted to do.” — Marilyn Grey Copy Share Image
I struggled with that notion early in my career. 'I know this is funny but nobody is laughing.' This thought occurred for… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
