I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
The most frightening thing about playing Dick Gregory is I've never done stand-up before, and I had to learn how to be… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget. — Robert Webb Copy Share Image
When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being - the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual - they all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when… — Peter Hook Copy Share Image
I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
In WWE, a gay person is usually portrayed like some sort of comedy act to be mocked and laughed at. The world's… — Kenny Omega Copy Share Image
I wanted to do serious movies. I had a certain idea of what good acting was. That's since changed, and I love… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Honestly, it's really hard improvising and it's really stressful and humiliating at times. You're taking really big swings that potentially are eating… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I don't want comedy to be Bridesmaids 2. I'm not denigrating Bridesmaids but, enough already, let's stop pretending women are incalculably different… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
I dont watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
For a while last summer I was depressed because nothing was happening. It got to the point where people like me were… — Bobby Lee Copy Share Image
Listen, here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don't judge you, what… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
At this point in my life Ive done a lot of things from stand-up to my own television show for five years… — Martin Lawrence Copy Share Image
Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's… — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It is tough to make people laugh, but when there is comfort level with co-stars and director it all works well. — Gurmeet Choudhary Copy Share Image
Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who… — Milana Vayntrub Copy Share Image
How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend? — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
The plays that I performed in the '70s are not the same plays that I perform today. However, what they have in… — Y. G. Mahendran Copy Share Image
It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday… — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
Compared with what's happening in, say, Darfur or South Ossetia, finding an audience for your comedy show is not that significant. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
“Plus, humor was a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn’t work, there was always Plan B. Run away.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you… — Jamie Babbit Copy Share Image
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“He laughed, a sinister sound that made some of the people outside the restaurant shudder without knowing why.” — Aldous Mercer Copy Share Image
People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Most actors can't write. Most writers can't act. Most comedians can't act. I can do all three, so why wouldn't I do… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get… — Omar Dorsey Copy Share Image
I feel that a lot of British comedy is often too bombastic, too obvious, dressing up and shouting and pulling funny faces. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
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