It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I do some very high energy comedy, vaudeville, music hall stuff, and people who've seen my work on camera, on TV and… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious.… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
It's easy to say standup for yourself. The problem is if you don't feel like you're physically capable of handling the repercussions… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
“You shoot him in this car and we'll be screwed so hard, we'll be walking funny for the rest of our lives.” — Michelle Elaine Lowe Copy Share Image
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once… — Billy Gardell Copy Share Image
We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of… — Tom Smothers Copy Share Image
We're going to continue to focus on family comedies because that is something that our audience really comes to ABC for. But… — Channing Dungey Copy Share Image
I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
In the changing-room, I'm seen as one of the jokers. I like to have a laugh; there are quite a few of… — Jamie Vardy Copy Share Image
I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
What I really like about stand-up is there's 100 people in a room, and you can just feel the pulse. It's very human. — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't… — Wayne Brady Copy Share Image
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago. — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life. — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
I love romantic comedies. I know how terrible they are, but I love them! And I don't think that makes me less… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“One more optional piece of advice: If you ever have to give a speech, start with a joke, if you know one.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
“Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Holy Cow' is our effort in the right direction where with humour we make some pertinent points which we hope will get… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
Comedy should speak truth to power. It should always be aimed upward. When it's aimed downward, it's called bullying. — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
Being able to write jokes is great, but you still have to get used to performing them and being on stage -… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge.… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in… — Bret McKenzie Copy Share Image
“I have always tried to use humor to "help ever" and "hurt never," for I find that to laugh is like swallowing… — David Cross Copy Share Image
People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Plus, humor ws a good way to hide the pain. And if that didn't work, there was always Plan B. Run aaway.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
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