Comedy Quotes · Page 162

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there -…

— Roger McGough

It's just a lovely way to do comedy, where you have the freedom to try stuff, but then you also have a…

— Natasia Demetriou

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

— Natasha Richardson

“The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!”

— Ray S. Jones

That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.

— Doug Stanhope

“JACK You're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax. GWENDOLEN Oh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and…

— Oscar Wilde

I have always wanted to do comedy.

— Anonymous

Maybe people don't think moms are cool. I don't know what to say about it. I don't know. Romantic comedies aren't for…

— Anne Fletcher

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

— Anonymous

Social media has definitely changed the game for me. I am able to connect to my fans on twitter and interact with…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I would watch several English comedy shows and I have always wanted to be a part of one.

— Tejaswi Madivada

To love the right person is a comedy. To love the wrong person is a tragedy.

— Timberlake Wertenbaker

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and…

— Steve Martin

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in…

— Jayma Mays

I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all…

— Paul Rudd

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my…

— Joyce Maynard

Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

— Phoebe Robinson

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

— Eddie Griffin

I do comedy in my room by myself, so it's so different to see how that all works and get the behind…

— Kian Lawley

Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.

— Erik Griffin

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

— Joan Rivers

What I would love to do is more telly comedy. I did a tiny bit in 'Toast of London' and was in…

— Sheila Hancock

I do think, with people in comedy, you can have your time, as it were, and then you don't realise that it…

— Julia Davis

My favorite actors are Jim Carrey and Chris Farley, Tom Hanks, Robin Williams. Robin Williams is the best - to be able…

— Evan Peters

The great thing about doing physical comedy for film is that if it doesn't work you're not exposed. It ends up on…

— Isla Fisher

I do more comedy, actually. I don't do the classic novelas.

— Jaime Camil

With comedy, I think it's so important, especially in TV, to know and trust what the writers are writing and just have…

— Jay Harrington

It would be a lot of fun to play some comedy.

— Anna Gunn

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never…

— Jeff Daniels

My TV comedy idols are the Charles brothers, who did 'Cheers;' Larry Gelbart, who did 'MASH;' and Larry David, who did 'Seinfeld.'…

— Dan Schneider

“My girlfriend and I just had make-up sex. We both wore make-up.”

— Randy Kagan

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

— Ann Coulter

Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

— Dara O Briain

The way I view comedy clubs is, people are drinking, they're ordering food, they're out for the night, and there's also a…

— Mike Birbiglia

“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as…

— Charles Dickens

“Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.”

— John Bellairs

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer…

— Fiona Gubelmann

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another…

— Bill Pullman

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

— David Farr

In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic…

— Susan Howe