I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually… — David Ives Copy Share Image
“If your dick has more frequent flyer miles than you do, you’re not a lover—you’re a disease with a passport.” — Brad Deep Copy Share Image
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked… — Paul Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Not everything's funny, Mother." "No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.” — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the… — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
To create a comedy major, I ended up starting a comedy night in the basement of my dorm, and I promoted and… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I don't look at certain things on TV anymore. I don't listen to certain music anymore. I make sure my kids don't… — Ginuwine Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I always find it actually funny that the analysis is that the characters I play in comedies are the manchild, the adolescent,… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring. — Drew Curtis Copy Share Image
My way of looking at the world is that if it is true, it is funny and it is dark. No matter… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from… — Bar Paly Copy Share Image
For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for. — Megan Ganz Copy Share Image
You smile, the world smiles with you, you laugh the world Laughs with you, you talk the world talks with you, you… — Akila Sultana Copy Share Image
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities as well as those of other people will keep… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
It just seems to me that there's no particular reason comedy albums should be dead. There's a lot to laugh at. We… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
If you look there is humor in every situation like your Aunt eating up all the food at the funeral or the… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
“Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Creating jokes, sometimes it's the experience of life and it's also practice and most of the time writers' help me. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions. — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make… — Bobby Darin Copy Share Image
“The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
It always is easier to have someone listen to you if you disarm them with the laughter first. It seems like a… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
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