My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become. — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners. — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back… — Molly Shannon Copy Share Image
Bobby Ball, who plays my dad in 'Not Going Out,' is very funny. He has a magical sense for comedy that nobody… — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
When you look at the comedies that are out there, 99 per cent of the time, men are the heroes. It's often… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
One Shot' could not have existed with commercials on Comedy Central, in my opinion. It would be needlessly breaking up the entire… — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
My comedy is not like the tightest thing in the world. There are punchlines, there are jokes, but it's like, I like… — Tim Dillon Copy Share Image
I'm not saying everyone who has a problem in their relationship should be a comedian, but I think if you're to work… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
“All practical jokes, friendly, harmless or malevolent, involve deception, but not all deceptions are practical jokes. The two men digging up the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
“More importantly, as comedians, our job is to say what is on our minds. Unfiltered and un-focus-group-tested. That’s what drives me nuts… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Not only do I not hate gay people, I actually accept them for who and what they are. They always seem happy… — Quinton Jackson Copy Share Image
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge [making Pineapple Express] was that we had a comedy budget. We really got excited the more we got into… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Often it's seen as empowering if you're cleverer than the men, or more aware - then you're giving the woman a great… — Natasia Demetriou Copy Share Image
Women, a lot of the time, are so much funnier than men, but they just choose not to do comedy for a… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh… — Carolyn Birmingham Copy Share Image
You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between… — Malcolm De Chazal Copy Share Image
Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
If you look at a bill of comics at a comedy club they spread the women out over the months because there… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
I made some jokes about weed, got some laughs, made some more jokes, got some more laughs; next thing you know, I'm… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today. — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else… — Ron White Copy Share Image
I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers… — Tim Heidecker Copy Share Image
I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
With comedy, don't try to be funny. That's really helped me. Just say the lines as you would say them, interact with… — Ariel Winter Copy Share Image
I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe… — Tone Bell Copy Share Image
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I have done comedy and now I did a negative role. So for future I guess I wanna do an emotional character… — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image