Comedy Quotes · Page 481

I was inspired by comedy channels. I loved that they got to do sketches and could be funny and crude and make…

— Eva Gutowski

Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of…

— June Diane Raphael

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard…

— Garry Shandling

'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think…

— Lennon Parham

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are…

— Aaron Belz

I just love that part of comedy, where you see somebody's jokes develop. They try something new to see what works, and…

— Maria Bamford

People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero…

— Akshay Kumar

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer.…

— Joe Rogan

I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these…

— Ricky Gervais

I think all Internet comments should be disengaged. But I kind of live and die by it. It's completely irresistible. It's not…

— Harris Wittels

I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So,…

— Wyatt Cenac

What's funny is that with my comedies I don't believe they're my best screenplays necessarily. They're just the ones that I wrote…

— Julie Delpy

When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So,…

— Vir Das

Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way,…

— Chris Rock

“Humor as a system of communications and as a probe of our environment—of what's really going on—affords us our most appealing anti-environmental…

— Marshall McLuhan

Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have…

— Brad Williams

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending…

— Dick Cavett

“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”

— Tina Fey

Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities.

— David Farr

I have issues with food and weight and I can make that funny. The audience loves it. I have fun with it.

— John Pinette

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad…

— Bruce McCulloch

There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With…

— Nikki Cox

People ask me if they can send me material, and some people give or send it to me unsolicited, but I rarely…

— Wendy Liebman

I don't resent at all people saying, 'Oh, he's like a sweetheart'... but within comedy, it's a very funny way to talk…

— Josh Gondelman

We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to…

— Paulo Coelho

Our desire for immortality through our individual & collective creativity despite inevitable death is the only truly funny thing.

— Anonymous

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness…

— David Hasselhoff

I started doing comedy when I was a teenager with Tom Kenny, who is the voice of SpongeBob. I don't want to…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

After my first play, I realised that comedy was my forte - rather than being a dukhi heroine, I would rather do…

— Poonam Dhillon

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character…

— Chris Tucker

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going…

— Nish Kumar

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of…

— Ellie Kemper

The first time that I ever tried standup, which is how I found a way into show business, I did what I…

— Julio Torres

“I learned a long time ago that you have to be able to laugh no matter what. Otherwise you start weeping and…

— Catherine Jones Payne

But I started out as a comedian doing sketch work where you get to write, produce and direct your own stuff.

— Sam Seder

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to…

— Chris Tucker

I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them…

— Lesley Nicol

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road…

— Rob Delaney

The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in…

— Harry Levin