Comedy Quotes · Page 142

I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.

— Brad Garrett

I think through humor you can get a point across better than through just a dramatic narrative.

— Dominique Crenn

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

— Eileen Brennan

The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.

— Prunella Scales

As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex.

— Kristen Schaal

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

— Judah Friedlander

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

— Maynard James Keenan

If you can get the crew to laugh on a show, you know that you're doing something.

— Kevin Clash

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 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

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

— Sam Kinison

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

— Jay Duplass

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

— Anonymous

Comedy is very interesting because you can very quickly cross into dangerous territory. I mean look at what happened, unfortunately, (in) Paris…

— Corbin Bernsen

I never understand when people say, 'Do you do comedy or tragedy?' I don't think they're very much different. They both have…

— Mike Nichols

When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons…

— Chris Rock

Do you laugh in the right places? Then, you’ll get along, in fair weather or foul. Humor is nothing less than a…

— Carole Lombard

I think the worst thing you could ever do is label comedy. I'm a fan of the broadness of Lucille Ball, the…

— Sean Hayes

I think of shock as kind of an uptown form of surprise. Comedy is filled with surprise, so when I cross a…

— George Carlin

Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,…

— Janet Burroway

Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil,…

— Uwe Boll

You can never have a thousand percent batting average on jokes - it's just never going to happen.

— Paul Feig

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

— Scott Adsit

“In the laughter of soul, the century-old agony is freed, like petals loosened in spring.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

— Sharon Gless

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

— Andy Daly

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

— Eddie Marsan

That messed up moment when you laugh at a joke that was about you, but you didn't know.

— Anonymous

“Find something about yourself to laugh about every day.”

— Mensah Oteh

There is a fine line between what is funny and disrespectful.

— Zendaya Coleman

If we were truly created by God, why do we occasionally bite the insides of our mouths?

— Dara O Briain

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.

— David Mitchell

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

— Edgar Allan Poe

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

— Dan Mazer

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

— Charlie Chaplin

I think that's very important for romantic comedies, that they do deal with [modern]issues.

— Jennifer Lopez

There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.

— Steve Carr