Everyone in comedy thinks if you go to the U.S. you become a global star but, unfortunately, I've always been a bit… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
I find anger to be funny. I find people that are so wrapped up in their own personalities to be funny, and… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Laugh Because it is your purpose in life. Love because that is what you came here for. Move on because you need… — Honey Grace Estrellado Copy Share Image
It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I… — Louise Jameson Copy Share Image
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a… — Duffy Daugherty Copy Share Image
I enjoy it all: performIng, doing TV, movies, comedy, drama, stand-up, animation voicework, singing, but you get that instant gratification from stand-up… — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the riots... and all these Brit people are trying… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
To me, real comedy comes out of behavior. It's the choices you make as an actor. It's never about, "I want to… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“the new Filipino President's name had become a saucy joke: 'Corazon, aqui, no?' That is: 'Darling, let's do it here, eh?' Or,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you get out of America people don't even know what a Comedy Central is. They haven't heard those two words in… — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in… — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
It all bottomed out with the Renaissance Period. Ren-ais-sance. Thats Renaissance, FRENCH for re-birth. Re-nais-sance. And thats why most of the Renaissance… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well.… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
For me, YouTube was about creating content because I had an interest in beauty and comedy and wanted to find a way… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover… — Manny Montana Copy Share Image
Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
“I thought I was having a fucking stroke," I say as they free me from my coated elastic prison, making them laugh… — Trish Doller Copy Share Image
Even with the most stressful situation you can laugh in its face. No one is built to continuously accept the psychological lashes… — Mariana Fulger Copy Share Image
I would love to make lighter entertainments that have you sort of hopping and skipping and jumping out of the theater, but… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
Jokes do finish themselves. I really do see them as ongoing conversations about personal themes that I ruminate on. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I think the premises of my comedy are Cosby-esque, but I don't come out with a sweater. I come out with a… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
That's what it's like to be a comedian. You basically stand and stare at the world and hope it craps out cause… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
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