My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations. — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
“I only need to write about 3,000 one-liners a day to produce a million jokes a year. Simple. I’ll just get started… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire. — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
“In the early 1800s there arose in England a fashion for inhaling nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, after it was discovered that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right'… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
When I did comedy I made fun of myself.If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me… — Sid Caesar Copy Share Image
I love comedy. I don't approach it any different. I'm not a comedian. I'm not a stand-up. I just do it like… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have to be really careful, because I have nothing but love for this entity known as "the customer" in entertainment. I… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
It was just really fun doing 'Step Brothers,' and then 'Party Down' came a year later. I was having so much fun.… — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
“it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the… — Chris Farley Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
It's true, of course, humor is very important in my life, as you know. That's the only reason for living, in fact. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Comedy, sometimes if you think about it too much then it becomes a bit boring. If you start thinking about striking the… — Mark Critch Copy Share Image
Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
What's interesting about Laurel and Hardy is that in most comedy teams, there's a straight man, and then there's the funny guy.… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
In 'Comedy Nights With Kapil,' we had fixed characters and we were under a contract that we could not work for other… — Upasana Singh Copy Share Image
Funny is funny. If it's funny enough to women, it will be funny to men. I think that's been proven by Broad… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
The truth is, I've never thought of myself as the Michael Jordan of comedy. And that's a good thing. You know why?… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
People don't like to be lectured to, but if you can make them laugh, their defenses come down, and for the time… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
Kaizad Gustad is quite crazy, and he has weird ideas, and 'Boom' is one such idea. It's a crazy film by a… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character. — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
