Comedy Quotes · Page 55

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country…

— H. L. Mencken

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that…

— Selenis Leyva

Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.

— Kiku Sharda

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

— Jim Sturgess

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific…

— Jason Reitman

Now, with the success of musical comedy like the Mighty Boosh, Flight of the Conchords and Bo Burnham, I feel vindicated.

— Bill Bailey

“Do short people reach their full potential quicker?”

— Benny Bellamacina

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of…

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

The Rock was one of my favourite comedy characters growing up, and I still think he is. Mainly because he took himself…

— James Acaster

Every time is a time for comedy in a world of tension that would languish without it. But I cannot confine myself…

— James Thurber

“We have built cities that scrape the sky, machines that think and a global network that allows people to yell at each…

— Natalie Kyriacou

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had…

— Susan Sontag

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and…

— Louis C. K

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

— Daniel Tosh

I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of…

— Demetri Martin

“Percy, you are dismissed from my service." "Me? Why, my lord?" "Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a…

— Richard Curtis

I'd rather do comedies that strike at some bigger ideas.

— Harold Ramis

It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I…

— Aaron Paul

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents.…

— John Prine

I've always felt, and I think I've been pigeonholed by the media, as being a very separate voice to the rest of…

— Omid Djalili

In a perfect world, I would like to do as many seasons of 'Workaholics' as possible, as long as people still like…

— Adam DeVine

I just love the different rhythm of comedy after having been in a disease-of-the-week kind of show.

— Christina Pickles

Communist until you get rich, feminist until you get married, atheist until the airplane starts falling

— Juanda Brahma Metta

I think comedy has to come from a real place. It has to come from an honest place.

— Tim Heidecker