Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like… — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
There's a 'Seinfeld' episode, where he talks about why he can't get angry, because his voice rises to a comedic pitch and… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
Comedy, if it's done well, can reflect the mood of a nation. It can be a mirror to who we are, what… — Brad Stine Copy Share Image
The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience. — Harold Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Life is good, dealing with it can be hard, and sometimes the very best thing—no, the only thing—we can do to face… — Bob Carey Copy Share Image
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
Funny and sad are two sides of the same coin. I think that most comedians are able to tap into deep subject… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“For, ultimately, isn't all laughter only the echo of an original revolt against the almighty: a never-ending scream against the absurdity of… — D.P. Watt Copy Share Image
I never know what my next thing is going to be, and I'm not out there specifically searching for one thing in… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
“Adam thinks that you two are in an argument." My body zinged into alert mode. My mind didn't know what Mrs. Vader… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
I love comedy with a passion, and I hope that shows in my work. I would never want to move an inch… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I naturally think in terms of comedy whenever I see anything because tragedy is so close to comedy, so I like to… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
“He looked like every glossy frat boy in every nerd movie ever made, like every popular town boy who’d ever looked right… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Stand-up is a weird animal. There are people who really want to know what you think about things, your opinion on life.… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, it's the new normal to get divorced - and divorced with children is its own soil rich with land mines. There's… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
I'm particularly bad at breaking if something's funny. I'm not professional, so I do often laugh, but less at what I do… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?' — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
People who know me know that theres a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky. — Waris Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
I worked for the Comedy Store as an employee trying to become a paid regular. I had this dream of achieving a… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
If we started thinking, 'Why's this funny?' we might start incorporating rules into it. I'd be suspicious that it would change the… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
When your time is good, your mistakes r taken as a joke. But When your time is bad, even your jokes r… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes… — Jason Jones Copy Share Image
There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
I want to go places where there are really well-meaning people doing work that is interesting and seems to really matter and… — Tina Smith Copy Share Image
When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central. — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
It's starting to feel good, although I don't like feeling too good - that's not where my comedy comes from. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy,… — Kaley Cuoco Copy Share Image
As comedians, we all get into that mode of thinking of the worst thing imaginable - but you usually have the ability… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh.… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
