Comedy Quotes · Page 488

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well…

— Fiona Apple

For writing stand-up, I have to have a little bit of anger and frustration to be motivated to do it. Stand-up, for…

— Whitney Cummings

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy.…

— Anonymous

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do…

— Dane Cook

What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who…

— Nathan Fillion

I love romantic comedies that are set in a world. It's not just a boy and a girl falling in love, out…

— Drew Barrymore

If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.

— Jack Whitehall

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy,…

— Shia LaBeouf

For the second series of 'Luxury Comedy', I tried to drop the 'Noel Fielding' from it. I thought that would make it…

— Noel Fielding

What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor…

— Andy Andrews

A wise man once sat in the audience and cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the…

— Ritu Ghatourey

I had never intended to be on the show more than three years, regardless of how successful it was. I had other…

— Desi Arnaz Jr

Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times.…

— Robert Mankoff

Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the…

— Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

But its not funny. Not to people who've been told they're losers their whole lives and believe they will never be anything…

— Julie Anne Peters

I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a…

— Bono

I'm obsessed with 'The Americans.' It's one of my favorite shows. I also love 'Baskets' - low-brow, high-art comedy.

— Jay Duplass

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's…

— Sam Kinison

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh.…

— Michael Patrick King

I love stand-up, but it has become so normal and natural to me that the buzz comes from the adrenaline of a…

— Chris McCausland

“I don't think I shall send it anywhere," he answered, tossing his head back in that odd way that used to make…

— Oscar Wilde

It's not that comedy has changed in terms of what's funny. For me, it's changed in that sometimes I don't feel my…

— Bobby Lee

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my…

— Bob Newhart

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

— Richard Pryor

“I have the most fantastic, stupendous, magnificent idea. Why it’s better than television," he said, standing there in red, tartan pyjamas, his…

— Anonymous

That is what I got into comedy for, to be able to challenge myself and just grow as a comedian and find…

— Jaboukie Young-White

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works…

— Ice Cube

My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy,…

— Dave McCary

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided…

— Kate Beckinsale

I wouldn't defend comedy that I find offensive, but there is a lot of comedy that some people find offensive which I…

— Jesse Armstrong

When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.

— Aisling Bea

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

— John Benjamin Hickey

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been…

— Toks Olagundoye

“Hearing a client say ‘The CEO was quite impressed with your design concepts’ could never compare with the intense pleasure Grace felt…

— Liane Moriarty

I was never really comfortable doing comedy. Though it was good the first couple of years, there were problems, and it became…

— Anonymous

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why…

— John Baldessari

Beware of laugh at and laugh with; the only people who laugh at you are the ones who pretend to laugh with…

— Vikrant Parsai

I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show…

— Jim Gaffigan