Comedy Quotes · Page 461

The most frightening thing about playing Dick Gregory is I've never done stand-up before, and I had to learn how to be…

— Joe Morton

There was a lot of terrible, terrible comedy in the seventies along with 'Fawlty Towers.' It's easy to forget.

— Robert Webb

I love taking something that is understood to be funny or charming or sweet or naive and instilling it with some degree…

— David Lowery

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

— Craig Mazin

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to…

— James Joyce

“Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.”

— Bryan R. Dennis

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he…

— Jack Dee

At this point in my life Ive done a lot of things from stand-up to my own television show for five years…

— Martin Lawrence

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I…

— Kevin Hart

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's…

— Jonah Hill

Sometimes, when people are talking to me about something I have no interest in and that glazed over look takes me, I…

— Anonymous

“For GQ’s Andrew Corsello, Louis C.K.’s qualification to be considered El Supremo is that he is more than a comedian—he is a…

— James Wolcott

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and…

— Tina Fey

“I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the…

— Oscar Wilde

We're not trying to make a reality show at all. The show gets described sometimes as a reality show, sometimes as a…

— Sal Vulcano

Just because I laugh alot, doesnt mean my life is easy. just because I have a smile on my face everyday, doesnt…

— Stay Strong

In WWE, a gay person is usually portrayed like some sort of comedy act to be mocked and laughed at. The world's…

— Kenny Omega

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind…

— Will Smith

I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of…

— Rachel Bloom

When you have a heartfelt belly laugh, all parts of your being - the physiological, the pyschological, the spiritual - they all…

— Rajneesh

But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when…

— Peter Hook

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the…

— Boris Sidis

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

— Ari Graynor

I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I…

— Miranda July

“precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody…

— A Gentlemen

Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.

— Jon Lovett

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

— Eric Andre

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate…

— George Gissing

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side…

— Peter Ustinov

Everyone likes laughing, everyone likes feeling that short feeling of not thinking about anything; 'I'm just scrolling, I'm just having a look.'

— Harris Dickinson

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that.

— Jeff Dunham

There's so much terrible stuff in the clubs: you see audience's minds being polluted by awful language and base thoughts. But perhaps…

— Omid Djalili

At first, there was a separation of clubs and sketch comedy. Now there's all kinds of comedy, making us one big happy…

— Jen Kirkman

When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.

— Larry Wilmore

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the…

— Cristela Alonzo

I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give,…

— Nicole Holofcener

I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of…

— Lindsay Wagner

If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us…

— Robert Patrick

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror.…

— Rain