Comedy Quotes · Page 459

Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need…

— Jonathan Krisel

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But…

— Billy Crystal

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for…

— Burt Ward

Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy…

— Josh Widdicombe

“Cameron firmly believed if you couldn’t laugh at yourself, you weren’t allowed to laugh at anyone else either.”

— Marie Force

Sarah Silverman. She's the reason I do comedy. Her DNC speech was my favorite thing I ever heard. Sitting down with her…

— Nikki Glaser

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

— Susan Sontag

Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it…

— Ralph Ineson

I will remember the night I won the New Comedy Awards, as I was young and unformed, so that sticks in the…

— Nina Conti

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around…

— Larry Wall

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is…

— Paul Watzlawick

I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye…

— Eric McCormack

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is…

— Rita Mae Brown

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because…

— Beth Grant

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was…

— Tina Fey

“Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body’s dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough…

— Glen Duncan

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

— Dreama Walker

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die…

— Dustin Diamond

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms…

— Janeane Garofalo

A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the…

— Thomas Middleditch

Humor is not only fun but healthy too! Heart attack is shown to be less likely to happen for people who have…

— Babloo

Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.

— Rachel Bloom

I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well,…

— Brian Posehn

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very…

— Larry Wilmore

The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of…

— Jason Alexander

Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot…

— Tracy Morgan

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of…

— Stacy Keach

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best…

— Lewis Carroll

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny…

— Greg Kinnear

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey…

— Nikolai Gogol

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic…

— Lee Van Cleef

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and…

— Dave Barry

“The Times came last night; tonight it was Newsday and the Voice. I want to tell them we were just joking. It’s…

— David Sedaris

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing…

— Longchenpa

If you find you are not understanding my explaination for a joke, hit F5 on your browser and the page will refresh…

— Ryan North

I was part of 'Piya Ka Ghar'... for two years. It started out as a comedy but didn't work and so it…

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

— Steve Coogan

I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their…

— Roseanne Barr