Comedy Quotes · Page 470

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the…

— Ronnie Barker

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you,…

— Faith Prince

I always think all the other comedians in New York hate me - I'm just convinced that they all dislike me -…

— Chris Gethard

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd…

— James Clavell

I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick, cheap…

— Emily Mortimer

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I've grown up around some incredibly funny people, which has been a blessing and curse because now I've been completely spoiled in…

— Dan Levy

“Larry is slowly, softly almost laughing, like not quite trying to throw up, and Mayn finds history right there.”

— Joseph McElroy

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do…

— Matthew Lillard

I think comedy is no different now than it was at other points. It takes a long time to get good and…

— Ted Alexandro

I think comedy is an angry art form; it's an outsider art form. Anger and comedy are really connected. If I'm angry…

— Margaret Cho

There's a lot of similarities, I think, between a thriller and a comedy because it's all about tension. It's about building tension…

— Jon Watts

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from…

— Doug Stanhope

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness…

— George Meredith

If people want to see something, I am more than happy to do it. Then I know everybody likes comedy. I do…

— Arshad Warsi

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness…

— Mark Haddon

I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes.

— Erica Durance

We all know what tragedy is. "Yes, I'd rather not have any more tragedy, please. I'll have comedy, please." Comedy, in the…

— Eric Drooker

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and…

— Joaquin Phoenix

“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room…

— Paul Fussell

There's something really wonderful about making people laugh, and if you can find the laughs within a dramatic piece, it's also very…

— Gemma Whelan

In comedy, beware the split focus. The audience should focus on the face of the actor. The audience must see the setup.…

— James Carver

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

— Aubrey Plaza

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes…

— Robert Browning

I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was…

— Warwick Davis

Humour is almost like a coping mechanism and everybody's up for having a bit of craic to try and pull through and…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just…

— Randy Rainbow

“I think ethnic jokes are hilarious, all sorts of ethnic jokes. White, black, Mexican, midget. Maybe midgets are not an ethnicity, but…

— Jarod Kintz

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any…

— Dick Cavett

We sat down and talked about who we liked comedy-wise, TV-wise, what made us laugh and what we enjoyed doing. So a…

— Declan Donnelly

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work,…

— Jenna Elfman

First off, I don't do self-deprecation comedy based on being fat. I would always talk about it honestly. Secondly, I don't care…

— Jeff Garlin

Really dark times bring out this need for humour. Even if it's very dark humour, it's still bringing out some kind of…

— Sophie Thatcher

When I entered the industry in 1984, I was welcomed, no one pushed me away. I want the younger comedians to experience…

— Johnny Lever

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

I just hope people see the work that I'm doing. I hope they acknowledge comedy and what an art form it is.…

— Janelle James

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action…

— Jensen Ackles

There used to be an art form called the 'comedy of manners.' Why aren't comedies of manners made now in this country?…

— Steve Allen

I don't need no stool and mike stand. I don't need all of that to be funny. I've been funny my whole…

— Tracy Morgan

Comedy can reach many more people than, say, a serious lecture on the topic. And comedy might just be the access point…

— Aasif Mandvi