I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“There's a lot of humiliation in living, but that's okay, for if the gods are always laughing, then surely at times they… — J. Andrew Schrecker Copy Share Image
“When I could find something to laugh about for 30 minutes, my grief lightened just enough to make the day bearable.” — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
“Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. -- character Billy Clyde… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective,… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. — Frank Tyger Copy Share Image
It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“Humor and sarcasm: Humor and sarcasm are two very common ways to deflect, avoid, or simply deny feelings and thoughts.” — Shirley Impellizzeri Copy Share Image
So often with beginning writers, the story that they want to start with is the most important story of their life -… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Not enough info makes for a lot of dead cats." "Dead cats?" "You know, 'Curiosity killed the cat.' And I have enough… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
I've never tried fatback. Probably 'cause it's called fatback. I don't know which word creeps me out more: fat or back. Why… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
If you are a stand-up you can hone your material over successive performances, based on the audience response. Changing a single word… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted to help me get my start, not to mention it's tough being a female in a man's world of stand-up… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Dr. Chuck “Chuckles” Gigglebrooks, lead researcher at the National Association of Laughter Studies, had this conclusion to draw about why people laugh:… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is completely cheesy and goofy, so… — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
“We laughed harder than the humor deserved, which goes to show you no matter your age, you're closer to adolescence than you… — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
And hey, it's okay to laugh at yourself sometimes, I do dumb things all the time (haha). But when it get's too… — Christina Grimmie Copy Share Image
I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a monkey… — Tara Reid Copy Share Image
“The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We started gearing our content more to what makes us laugh and stories we wanted to tell, and we had to decide,… — Mitchell Hurwitz Copy Share Image
“WHEN YOU LAUGHING ON A PERSON,SOME PERSON LAUGHING ON YOU .ITS A CIRCLE.THINK BEFORE YOU LAUGHING ON A PERSON.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As long as it's not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. — Larry David Copy Share Image
Comedy is free therapy. And if it's done well, the audience and the comic take turns being the doctor as well as… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Daily Show' was really a turning point, where people started to realize that comedy can have a true cultural impact and… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the… — Alan Thicke Copy Share Image
A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
We went to open-mike night at a comedy club called Stanford & Sons and the comics were terrible. My cousin dared me… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be Doug Stanhope; everybody wants to be Bill Hicks - and those are great people to aim for, but… — Chris Cubas Copy Share Image
You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself. — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
With most specials, even the best comedians will tell you they could have cut 15 or 20 minutes out of it. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
