The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Most republicans are against contraception because they don't care about it. You can't get pregnant anally anyway. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try. — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out -… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
It is actually really fun. By the end of the last season we realized that we wanted to do a sex farce… — Jon Cryer Copy Share Image
Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition.… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Just because I laugh a lot doesn't mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face everyday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?” Nine Eleven asked, noticing Seth trying to look around him. He followed Seth's gaze. “Oh.” He turned back… — Charlie Fey Copy Share Image
I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also, for me, you get more naturalism, and that's… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
“Maybe your aunt is funny in quiet moments with her friends because like many women her age, she was taught to not… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Improv and sketch comedy felt very natural to me, like all the things I loved had come together: my sense of humor,… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
To me, stand-up comedy is a place where you can say whatever you want. So to not use that space to say… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
How would we survive without laughter? What a wonderful, free gift that we've been given as human beings. — Janelle James Copy Share Image
'Bridesmaids' was phenomenal. It deserves every accolade it's gotten, and it's exciting for every woman in comedy. — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to… — Kaley Cuoco Copy Share Image
“Comedians aren't funny, because comedians try to be funny, and people who try to be funny aren't funny.” — Anonymous Blog Post Copy Share Image
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to… — Abel Ferrara Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such… — Brian d'Arcy James Copy Share Image
People who laugh on someone or everyone paving a new road to scale up on a growth graph know consciously well that… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and… — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive… — Horace Copy Share Image
No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this?… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable -… — Lizzy Caplan Copy Share Image
It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that… — John Belushi Copy Share Image
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
There's a real freedom in being involved in a comedy. You can lean into the silliness of who we are as people. — Harris Dickinson Copy Share Image
The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human… — Erik Griffin Copy Share Image
The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
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