Comedy comes out of everyone's worst day. No one writes a sitcom episode about everyone having a good day. It's always about… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
“Within a few years these "jokes" as we comedians call them, will have been entirely purged from my work in favour, exclusively,… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“My complaint is universal, and has been so through the ages, an excuse for jest and hilarious laughter from earliest times, until… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to… — Chris Huhne Copy Share Image
“The secret to a successful webcomic is to trick people into believing they will only get all the jokes if they read… — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share… — Jim Holt Copy Share Image
If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
“Giddon cracked a grin. "They do give the impression that no one else has nearly as much fun making up." "But people… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies,… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
I'm in awe of actors, I think they're amazing because, I don't think I can even play me in anything. I'm really… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
I'm always amazed that anyone is paying attention to anything that I do, you know what I mean? I feel like I'm… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over… — Naturi Naughton Copy Share Image
We're weird guys. I don't know if a lot of people get our humor. A lot of people probably think we're jerks.… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
One day, I said to my father, 'I'm thinking of giving the comedy thing a try, what's your advice?' He goes, 'If… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done You can tune me out, you can click me… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
With basketball, if a guy is having an off night you still can say he's a good athlete. But with a comedian,… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I grew up in the age of variety shows. 'Flip Wilson,' 'Carol Burnett,' 'Donny and Marie,' and 'Sonny and Cher' - I… — Wendi McLendon-Covey Copy Share Image
So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
With Comedy Central, they produced it and did everything - I just had to walk up there and tell the jokes -… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
There are shows that are doing incredible work on broadcast, especially in comedy. You have to hit that sweet spot of being… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only… — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I will never say never, but I will say never to doing the more typical romantic comedies. You know, unless I'm getting… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Not that I don't think irreverent humor and someone being filthy is funny, I just do what I do. Any comedian would… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when… — Matt Dillon Copy Share Image
