Comedy Quotes · Page 469

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth…

— George Bernard Shaw

“I went through and underlined all the funny lines in his book, and by the time I was done, I had underlined…

— Jarod Kintz

I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.

— Brian Regan

In a world in which man-made and natural disasters are only multiplying by the day, it's important to remember that we haven't…

— Cord Jefferson

I like to tell old jokes on stage after about an hour, or an hour and a half. I'll bring those old…

— Gabriel Iglesias

It's best, I think, to treat stand-up comedy on the telly like tapas: small tasters of something you'd love a proper plate…

— Sarah Millican

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't.…

— Heinrich Boll

I started doing pot jokes, and I noticed that audiences invariably love pot jokes. Even people who don't smoke pot think it's…

— Doug Benson

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder…

— Stephen Fry

“Staring at my smoldering hot date, her husband stands tall for the first time in a decade, adjusting his toupee while flashing…

— Brett Tate

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.…

— Jonah Hill

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like…

— Paul Feig

If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people…

— Rhys Darby

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was…

— Jack Whitehall

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is…

— Kevin Hart

I think there's a difference between making comedy and reporting comedy. When you're a joke teller you can easily fall into the…

— Demetri Martin

“COMEDIAN: [...] What is it you do for a living? HECKLER: I mind my own business. COMEDIAN: Self-employed, eh? No really, what…

— J. Ross Clara

We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it…

— Johnny Knoxville

I started out splitting my time between the Kansas City and St. Louis comedy scenes, which both had bluer sensibilities than other…

— Nikki Glaser

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered.…

— Louis C. K

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

— Anne Lamott

The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody…

— Stephen Chbosky

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

— Nancy Pearl

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

— Blaise Pascal

I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and…

— Harold Ramis

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than…

— Ernest Renan

“Narnia is what Peter Leithart calls “Deep Comedy,” a story in which the characters may face challenges, but eventually rise to a…

— Joe Rigney

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to…

— Wallace Shawn

Comedy, it's a way for me to keep my acting chops. It's like a free acting class, to get up in front…

— Gabrielle Dennis

God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend…

— Mark Buchanan

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're…

— Wallace Shawn

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh…

— Owen Wilson

I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs.

— Milton Jones

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor…

— Anonymous

Humor is very important as people have forgotten to laugh at themselves these days. They should not lose the funny bones.

— Saswata Chatterjee

For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians,…

— Craig Ferguson

I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician.…

— Bernie Mac

I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and…

— Ed O'Neill