Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot! — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“Nothing creates a bond between people in Africa more quickly than shaed laughter".” — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
God has made me to laugh, so that everyone who hears me would laugh with me. — Moses Copy Share Image
A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Regardless of what amount of satire or sarcasm is heard in what I do, the reason it connects with people is because… — Ricky Reed Copy Share Image
The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
Well, I like to have fun and be silly, and a lot of people who know me know I joke a lot… — Marvin Bagley III Copy Share Image
You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
On getting mugged: I carry around months and months of receipts. I need a mugger who can file my VAT returns. — Dara O Briain Copy Share Image
I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core,… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“In light of all this, we’re now equipped to think about the relationship between laughter and humor. In any given comedic situation,… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
