I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other:… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“People laughed when they heard a good joke, but they groaned when they heard a pun, because there was no such thing… — Lucy Mihajlich Copy Share Image
The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong.… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
I don't have much time for the 'sad clown' thing. It's only associated with comedians because of the disparity between feeling like… — Mae Martin Copy Share Image
One thing as a comedian, even though throughout your entire year, you're growing and working on your material... you can feel like… — Matt Rife Copy Share Image
“My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
We've all seen comedians look like they're reaching just a little bit too much for the laugh. This is counterproductive. The conceit… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy. — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian - you've got to know your boundaries - but I think I could definitely do a comedic film… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
“As W.H. Auden pointed out, the Reaper takes the rolling in money, the screamingly funny, and those who are very well hung.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I'm not casting judgement...i'm just telling how I see it, mow when 5 people clamim to be your babydaddy…you're a hoe. — DL Hughley Copy Share Image
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different… — Mackenzie Crook Copy Share Image
I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I was always given the comedy role, even in the ballet. I was the one who fell off her points, you know?… — June Whitfield Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of bad guys over the years, a lot of hardcore guys. At the same time, I've done a… — Jonathan Banks Copy Share Image
The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable. — James Gray Copy Share Image
Comedy is a difficult thing for a critic, as, unlike all other art-forms, it has an inbuilt success-o-meter: laughter. Therefore, there's no… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
My routine isn't so much dreaming up the comedy as just seeing what happens to me. I seem to be leading a… — John Pinette Copy Share Image
I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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