Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter. — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I was the other man, basically. The OB which is lingo for original boyfriend not obstetrician was just ridiculous looking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humor is a very big part of life, and if you exclude humor from your book, you're not capturing a very important… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
If someone makes you feel wrong-footed, you're unlikely to find them witty. — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
“There is the only way to change your life and it is to make it better.” — Sergey Vedenyo Copy Share Image
Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Woman Law: My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
“Behold the day-break! I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face, I stir you with muscular paw-prods,… — Henry N. Beard Copy Share Image
Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in… — Jason Robert Brown Copy Share Image
“Hot Sauce54: Demonstrating that psychologists have a wonderful sense of humor, this paradigm consists in measuring how much hot chili sauce the… — Xavier Lastra Copy Share Image
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“I smile at the interviewer’s stern face to buy more time. This is why I hate interviews. I don’t see the point… — Anjali Kirpalani Copy Share Image
“HARV, can you help at all here?” I asked, spinning downward. “I am writing your obituary. Well, not so much writing it… — John Zakour Copy Share Image
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else. — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
“Of all the things God created, from sunrises and rainbows, to black holes and humor, cats are the most fascinating to me. ” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Eriskigal, or as some say it, Erishkigal, is Morgan le Fay, Kali, Persephone, and Hel.' 'She's Hel all right,' Jarrah muttered.” — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“What part of you is dead, my daughter?” I didn’t know—my sense of humor maybe?” — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on… — Alice Childress Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.” — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work,… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right. — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“Haylee shook her head as soon as they were gone. “Christ, how can our family be mankind’s best hope?” — Natasha Larry Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Tindall told me I'd find you up here tilting at putrid windmills. Now I know what he meant.” — Steve Hockensmith Copy Share Image
“He scrambled to grab a hose and pointed it at us. A pathetic stream of water trickled out. What are you going… — Jaye Wells Copy Share Image
“Ulrich Van Holtz continued to read the latest tome on world economics, pretending to be bored, but in truth absolutely fascinated!” — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long. — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
“Saving damsels in distress is all in a day’s work for your friendly local vampire.” — Tiffany Allee Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist... how… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I think Trump is terrible for comedy. A lot of people say he is great. He's not. You can't joke a joke. — Michelle Wolf Copy Share Image
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
As a comedian, Trump is comedy gold, and he almost makes my job too easy... the stuff that comes out of his… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
