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Comedy Quotes by Louis C. K

43 Comedy quotes by Louis C. K

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You don’t look down at your feet, because staying connected with the audience keeps the humor alive. The quotes say there’s no such thing as a cheap laugh and that comedy is a messy, honest mess. They also talk about loving funny things more than the label ‘comedy.’

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I love comedians. They're my community.

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I could never sit down and write jokes.

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Oh, I love stand-up.

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There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

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Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

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Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

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Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

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There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

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I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

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It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

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I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

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If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor,…

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Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing…

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To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

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I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value…

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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

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You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact…

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One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old,…

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You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah,…

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Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope…

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Why can't we have racism that's ignorant but nice? You could have stereotypes that are positive about race. You could say, "Those…

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I was in a hotel room in Dallas, and I was jerking off so much and so sadly and pathetically, that the…

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I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all…

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Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a…

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To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To…

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The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware…

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It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was…

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A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and…

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

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I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well,…

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People are too afraid of uptown. A lot of people will tell you, like, "Don't go to Harlem. You can never go…

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Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like…

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If I found myself alone on planet Earth, no other humans, I would have sex with a monkey in like two minutes.…

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I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

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Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

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Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I…

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I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

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I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

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I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered.…

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Comedians and Feminists are natural enemies. Because stereotypically speaking, feminists can't take a joke and comedians can't take criticism.

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I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

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“A woman saying yes to a date with a man is literally insane and ill-advised, and the whole species' existence counts on them doing…

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way…

You have to be really tenacious. You have to keep at it. There are many roads to get there. If you can get yourself…

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot…

There's no way you ask Sean Penn a question and then, you're gonna be HUGE !

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I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.