My inspiration to do comedy came from many places. Saturday mornings, I would watch Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis movies. I later… — Erik Griffin Copy Share Image
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“When will you stop laughing at misery? I'm so sick and tired of your pseudo-strength. All I want you to do is… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“When they're laughing at you, their guard is down. When their guard is down, you can kick them in the fracas.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
You can't tell me the success of Kevin Bacon isn't somehow tied to his name. You're not going out to see a… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I just love comedy, and I honestly believe that laughter transcends everything. If everyone laughed together, laughed more, it would unite the… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life.… — Rob Riggle Copy Share Image
I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they… — Evan Peters Copy Share Image
I am in the representational business, a portraitist. I have tried to walk an amused line amid hyperbole, documentary detail, cruel characterisation,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the… — Taylor Negron Copy Share Image
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Comedy makes everything accessible. Watching the news is kind of like being fed your evening pill. What's fun about it? Nothing. And… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It's freeing to be that person who people turn around to look at, wondering who could have a laugh that loud. — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
I'll do whatever I can do to remain employed. I'm just not precious about doing comedy or doing drama. I never want… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
It’s just what they are — they’re jokes…most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks…I can’t determine what offends another person. — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The first record i ever bought was the Blues Brothers' 'Briefcase Full of Blues.' I wanted to get into comedy, so I… — John Popper Copy Share Image
I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This sent me into an inappropriate laughing fit. I wasn't allowed to get angry, and I couldn't cry, so I laughed -… — Monica Holloway Copy Share Image
I feel humor is important for those two reasons: that it is a little bit of refreshment like music, and that women… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Like, I feel like I'm funny, despite the fact that I keep getting rejected by people less funny than me. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I like doing comedy and I know people enjoy watching me doing comedy. So I have no problem doing it. In fact,… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
“Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
When it comes to stand-up, people feel this need to voice their objection through groaning or being offended. It's really irritating... I… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems.… — Chris Tucker Copy Share Image
I do like a well-written sketch with a bunch of jokes in it, and I like stand-up with good jokes in it… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
Laugh when you want to cry and smile when you want to frown. - Quote I made up randomly¦ Not very good… — KousekiDokuro Copy Share Image
