I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays. — Adithya Menon Copy Share Image
Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to… — Jane Krakowski Copy Share Image
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those I love, I can: all of… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
From being a young kid I was always drawing and painting, usually stuff like private parts or bloody images but always with… — Tom Six Copy Share Image
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist. — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
As for making video comedy, pretty much anyone can do it. When I got started, I just filmed it with my webcam… — Simone Giertz Copy Share Image
I typically start out almost every speech I give making some kind of joke about me being in a wheelchair. — Greg Abbott Copy Share Image
The film studios learned to our dismay but to their pleasure that if they spent $200 million making a film they could… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
People always say, when did you realize you were funny? And I think it's not that you realize you were funny. It's… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
In any awards ceremony, if you're a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
“ASIO turned up on Hamza's doorstep a year ago, after he and his mate, both in their mid-twenties, returned from Yemen. They… — John Safran Copy Share Image
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
With YouTube streaming and Twitch and all that, you can just hop on on any given night and play videogames and have… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
“...you're a bit bonkers-but in a good way. You make me laugh...you don't give a ____ about any of the stupid stuff...you… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“Ma didn't think puns were funny but couldn't help laughing at the naughty look Pa gave her when he made one.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if… — Tommy Lee Jones Copy Share Image
If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony.… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
A lot of what I say isn't my real thoughts, it's this character, and maybe that's true for a lot of comedians.… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
'The Dice Man' is an anti-establishment cult novel, and you don't normally make studio films from such dark comedy material. — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I… — Megan Park Copy Share Image
A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first… — Nat Wolff Copy Share Image
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the… — Paula Pell Copy Share Image
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
There is nothing bad about this job. Comedians have nothing to complain about. That doesn't mean I'm not constantly moaning and worrying. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
If I was doing standup I would worry that someone would think I was being preachy, whereas, with a character, it always… — Lolly Adefope Copy Share Image
For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In comedy, if you're going to commission something commission two series, don't commission one because so many comedies are finding their feet… — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
