Comedy Quotes · Page 478

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and…

— Fran Kranz

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at…

— Calvin Trillin

You make me laugh at things that aren't funny. You make me smile without actually being here. You make my stomach flip…

— Anonymous

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the…

— Peter De Vries

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to…

— Frankie Boyle

It's a big deal to have Peppermint and Jiggly, two trans women, be on a pre-taped sketch for Saturday Night Live.'

— Bowen Yang

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of…

— David Prowse

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years…

— Steve Martin

I believe fully in making fun of children. I believe very strongly that you should never make fun of an embryo or…

— Kathy Griffin

The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for…

— Henry James

“Dave brought a knife and a gun to a comedy show. Because of a disagreement about whether or not comedy clubs are…

— Lindy West

Anders Thomas Jensen and I had talked about making a movie which addressed the cancer issue, and we didn't want to make…

— Susanne Bier

I think the saddest moments in life have humor in them. I have a memory of coming home from a funeral with…

— Zach Braff

Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy…

— Mike Birbiglia

I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and…

— David Letterman

My dad grew up basically in a hut in Taiwan without enough food to eat. And within one generation his son in…

— Aziz Ansari

Editing was hard for me. It was hard to be in a room by yourself and not have that collaborative spirit. Comedies…

— Jerusha Hess

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out,…

— Larry David

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the…

— Frankie Boyle

Sometimes I liken the comedian's lifestyle a little bit to a firefighter's in the sense that there's a lot of waiting and…

— Pete Holmes

“Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.”

— Adrianne Ambrose

The type of thing that one person would get mad at, another person would laugh at, is a good kind of zone…

— Nathan Fielder

There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by…

— Cillian Murphy

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it,…

— Lucas Neff

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over…

— Todd Barry

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

— Billy Crystal

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd…

— Mircea Monroe

“It wasn't that funny, but I laughed. There wouldn't be much laughter in the world if people didn't like each other, because…

— John Barnes

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything…

— Steve Harvey

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and…

— Guillermo Diaz

I was very fortunate to have had three years on 'Fresh Meat,' before working on 'Not Safe for Work.' Comedy drama is…

— Zawe Ashton

“Politicians kiss babies, fuck interns, and lie to everyone in between—and we still throw them parties like it’s an honor to be…

— Brad Deep

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it…

— Charlie Brooker

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is…

— Meryl Streep

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been…

— James Gray

There are a whole load of women I hugely admire: Judi Dench and French and Saunders were a big influence when I…

— Rebecca Front

[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to…

— Seungri

My main goal is to connect with the crowd. I leave room for improv. Whatever happens, happens. When I bring my band…

— Craig Robinson

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out…

— Peter Baynham