“This laughter is the laughter of those who consider themselves to be at a safe remove from all the wretched, for whom… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'd love to do something funny. Our work often deals with tough subjects. You do your research and it can be quite… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
If you're a comedian, it's a bit of a choice whether or not you want to be funny when you're not performing… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
'Greg the Bunny,' the comedy television show that I co-created, happened almost by accident. Dan Milano, Spencer Chinoy and myself made a… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The entire world is skewed from the white male perspective. If you're a woman, they have to say it's a female-driven comedy.… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
There's a very interesting article or symposium to be written on just the real difference between comedy filmmaking and non-comedy. Because, you… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
some of my happiest funniest times have been spent in offices. Perhaps because the work was mudane, even the tiniest of distractions… — Miranda Hart Copy Share Image
Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
The thing about stand-up was, not only was I getting to write it without anybody saying I couldn't do it, but I… — Donald Glover Copy Share Image
I feel like with 'Chuck,' because it was a comedy-based show, it was more cartoon-ish. It was just more playful. We had… — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
If I can make you laugh and learn, I want to be like George Carlin and Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy and… — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
I thought Rounders was a comic movie in its way. First time I directed a movie, I wanted to do a comedy.… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“Never mind that. What's going on with you and Heath?" Annabelle pulled a little wide-eyed innocence out of her rusty bag of… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I think as much as I talk about humour being a defence mechanism, I'm also really grateful that I developed it, because… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
“If you don't want to tear off the clothes of the person you're on a date with and jump into bed with… — Rachel Machacek Copy Share Image
When you really boil it down, what comedy does is you expect one thing, and you get a totally different thing that's… — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
Yes, money has been a little tight lately. But, at the end of my life, when I'm sitting on my yacht, am… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to.… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows,… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“With him big Phil from Notting Hill an old "face" from the sixties a pin up gangster with a "mars bar" weal… — Saira Viola Copy Share Image
When somebody listens and laughs, you're always in better shape than when you're with those folks who just kind of look at… — Jason Sudeikis Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that comedic acting is a lot harder than dramatic acting, but for me it just feels natural.… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
When Andy Kaufman performed, he was not just trying to be funny. He was playing with the notion of what it means… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
With the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
