I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand. — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got… — Dorian Corey Copy Share Image
I'm just going to keep doing comedy because I don't know what else to do. I have no other applicable skills. — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
I thought, "I don't want to be the only unfunny guy in this movie. I really would like to be somehow involved… — David Morse Copy Share Image
I've never done an actual Western, and I would love to do that. I've done drama and dark comedy stuff. I've never… — Max Thieriot Copy Share Image
I'm a comic writer, in some ways, and a comic person when I'm up at a podium, in order to disguise the… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic -… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
It's easy to play fun forms, surfaces, and languages against each other. Teenagers do this every day, producing winning memes from random… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Ghostbusters.' I loved that movie before I knew it was a comedy! As a kid, I lived between… — Sam Richardson Copy Share Image
I opened for Chris Rock and I was already headlining then, but I did like five or six of them and that… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, since 'Ocean's 11,' 'The Hangover' has become a movie that defines Vegas. Anybody in Vegas will tell… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad.… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
It never really occurs to me that I'm doing cringe comedy. It's something that people tell me afterwards, and I say, 'Again?… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
What's odd is that I've never been asked to do any comedy in film. That's something I could certainly do. — Richard McCabe Copy Share Image
It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot… — Christine Baranski Copy Share Image
When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness. — Betty White Copy Share Image
If you can appeal to another person's sense of humor, you can introduce ideas, thoughts, things that they may disagree with or… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
The experience of watching other standups is either: 1) you see your mate doing standup and it's really bad and you're heartbroken,… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
“Oh. Well was this your first time painting a live model?” She nodded her head, with an almost guilty look on her… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
“Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth, and laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race with death, and sometimes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along… — Josie Long Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
You learn a lot though when you have kids, I'll tell you what. Did you know when a baby poops its diapers,… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to… — D. L. Hughley Copy Share Image
You laugh at yourself atleast once a day. It builds character. And if you don't, well the my friend you are a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
For anybody that's looking at getting into comedy as stand-up or otherwise, the best advice to give is: Be original. Always. — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father.… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
The staff at Buckingham Palace are amazing. They are so quintessentially British in their comedy. Like sort of going 'Welcome to the… — Sam Ryder Copy Share Image
Most young comedians would be lying to say that they weren't huge Weird Al fans when they were kids. Weird Al is… — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
