Comedy Quotes · Page 10

I tell very mean jokes.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I don't like jokes.

— Wanderlei Silva

Funny, yet not really..

— Rachel Copeland

Laughter means sympathy.

— Thomas Carlyle

Laughter scares off lust.

— Mason Cooley

Comedians shame people.

— Frankie Boyle

I think sadness is funny.

— Jonah Hill

What a force is laughter.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can laugh at my own grief.

— Neena Gupta

I'm not a stand-up comedian; I'm not a satirist.

— James Corden

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

— Kevin Hart

Drama is easy. Comedy's hard.

— Peter Bogdanovich

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.

— Milton Berle

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

— Jimenez Lai

Laugh because that is the purest sound.

— Hafez

I've been doing comedy in New York since 2007.

— Scott Rogowsky

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

— May Sarton

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

— Steve Martin

I've requested Anand Raghav to write a full length comedy for me.

— Delhi Ganesh

Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.

— David Naughton

There is nothing that I'm more compelled to do than get up in front of a crowd and make people laugh.

— Bert Kreischer

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

— Horace Walpole

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

— Natalie Portman

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

— Tommy Chong

If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in…

— Howie Mandel

riley: give me a romantic comedy any day. rhoan: your jest a girly-girl at heart, arent you? riley: takes one to know…

— Keri Arthur

I think comedy and satire are a very important part of democracy, and it's important we are able to laugh at the…

— Rory Bremner

We sit in a room, laugh, and all come up with comedy situations, which we work out. Sometimes we cross the line,…

— Joe Gatto

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it…

— Suzanne Shaw

“Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren’t as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all…

— Drew Carey

It feels amazing to just be here and be able to share my jokes with the world. It's not so much about…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the…

— Luis Gutierrez

“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb,…

— Steve Allen

First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow,…

— Ben Stiller

You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you…

— Marcia Gay Harden

I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book.…

— George Meyer

I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like…

— Quentin Tarantino

“The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation…

— V.S. Ramachandran

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't…

— Catherine Tate