Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic laughs. Can you believe it? That's so sad. — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
In life there are always these things happening if you can just get the joke. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think Jack Nicholson in 'Chinatown' is a very funny character, but I would never call that a comedy. — Ruben Fleischer Copy Share Image
When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing… — Alan Ruck Copy Share Image
“stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Hard comedy goes for the fences. It's also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don't hit a home run,… — Bob Crane Copy Share Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“No, it's the best time for jokes,' said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. 'Jokes remind us that we're alive. And that… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One thing a comedian does, when you step on the stage, you're selling yourself, and certainly I don't think the whole world… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
If you look at the exports, Sasha Baron Cohen, Simon Pegg, Ricky Gervais, all these actors are comedians arent they? But they… — Danny John-Jules Copy Share Image
There are comedic rules and formulae and, while these tenets should be respected, especially by a newcomer, perversely you can still succeed… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I think comedy in the last 5-7 years is as good as it's ever been in America. I like it when people… — Peter Farrelly Copy Share Image
Not only do I not hate gay people, I actually accept them for who and what they are. They always seem happy… — Quinton Jackson Copy Share Image
“More importantly, as comedians, our job is to say what is on our minds. Unfiltered and un-focus-group-tested. That’s what drives me nuts… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
