Comedy Quotes · Page 22

People hate jokes.

— Frankie Boyle

Just be funny

— Anonymous

I don't do standup.

— Katya Zamolodchikova

I do love to laugh!

— Teresa Giudice

Nobody makes me laugh.

— Sean Hayes

Tears taught me how to laugh.

— Nishan Panwar

“A giggler always wins his/her enemies.”

— Euginia Herlihy

Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.

— Brian Celio

Humor comes from self-confidence.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Nothing's amusing that isn't spiteful.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Bullshit do good when tickle.”

— Toba Beta

Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them!

— Kathy Lette

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

— Lee Grant

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

— Horace Walpole

There is nothing that I'm more compelled to do than get up in front of a crowd and make people laugh.

— Bert Kreischer

I've requested Anand Raghav to write a full length comedy for me.

— Delhi Ganesh

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

— Steve Martin

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

— May Sarton

Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.

— Jen Kirkman

“A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.”

— Herman Melville

I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

— Marta Kauffman

“We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving the world, when…

— Wendy Corsi Staub

You can crack a joke and make a person smile but it matters a lot when that's on screen. It can be…

— Jitendra Kumar

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can…

— Christopher Moore

Humor has been a major component in our past successes; a good joke and a good product combined can get a lot…

— Vince Offer

Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

— Doug Benson

When I saw 'The Office' I thought, 'That's it for our type of humour. This has changed comedy for ever.' I loved…

— Harry Enfield

Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.

— Richard Herring

When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That's where I get sort of lost. I…

— Ryan Reynolds

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a…

— David Walliams

I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work.…

— Bob Newhart

Someone going from TikTok and expecting to be a natural stand-up comedian is the equivalent in my mind of someone being good…

— Tony Hinchcliffe

You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is…

— Doc Brown

have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be…

— Becky Freeman

“Without inquiring too deeply into the causes which make it possible to find subjects of gaiety always close at hand, the proof…

— Marcel Proust

I just like being able to voice my opinion. That's all comedy is. Comedy is just a different perspective. Perspective of what…

— Deon Cole

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow…

— Catherine Tate

I feel like the luckiest person in comedy.

— Rosie Jones

Humor is all about timing.

— Steven Heller

You've got a million ways to make me laugh

— Miley Cyrus