Comedy Quotes · Page 277

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck…

— Anonymous

Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it's not funny, they'll let you know.

— Jo Koy

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much…

— Aziz Ansari

Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.

— Adam McKay

I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film.

— Jessica Raine

I don't think any comedy is ever shocking. I don't buy that. That's just what people brand it, when someone is saying…

— Jim Norton

I think it would be frustrating to be a match maker. "What do you do?" "I'm a match maker" "Aw, that's really…

— Demetri Martin

I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke…

— Steve Coogan

Bands on tour are very good cultivators of what's the avant-garde of comedy.

— Jonathan Krisel

“The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that…

— Brett Tate

In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able…

— Anna Faris

“I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.

— Jennifer Aniston

That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with…

— Cyrus Broacha

“They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or…

— Lewis Black

“If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.”

— Geoffrey Wood

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

— Jermaine Fowler

It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so…

— James Lapine

“Hands can cook, hands can create, hands can kill. There is no better tool than our hands.”

— Amit Kalantri

My areas of expertise are acting, comedy, radio jockeying.

— Aparshakti Khurana

Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.

— John Lithgow

I’ve come in and out of America for… well, I’ve lived here for 15 years. And I’ve played here for nearly 30…

— Billy Connolly

For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes…

— Johnny Lever

There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men.

— James Acaster

Obviously we're doing a comedy [Fresh Hell], and our intent is to entertain, but we're also really aware and trying to stay…

— Brent Spiner