Comedy Quotes · Page 144

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

— Tim Minchin

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter, As long as I'm laughin' with you.

— Jessie Jakeway

If I'm going to do comedy I sort of want to do my own.

— Lenny Henry

I loved women who weren't afraid to get ugly in their comedy.

— Natasha Rothwell

I'm actually not funny, I'm just mean, but people always think I'm joking...

— Rohit Padhra

Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.

— George Carlin

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

— Anonymous

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

— Dave Barry

My dream was never necessarily comedy. I really wanted to make film or television and was interested in darker stuff over comedy,…

— Dave McCary

When you see people getting involved in Comic Relief, especially in tough times or times of recession, that's very positive.

— Aisling Bea

That is what I got into comedy for, to be able to challenge myself and just grow as a comedian and find…

— Jaboukie Young-White

I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works…

— Ice Cube

Comedy has always been something I love, but for some reason - probably because of the British accent - I've always been…

— Toks Olagundoye

So much of male heterosexual comedy can be steeped in a gay panic. A lot of juvenile comedy is predicated on that.

— John Benjamin Hickey

I love doing comedy. Absolutely love it. After 'Wedding Crashers,' people suddenly realized that it was something I could do.

— Jane Seymour

The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to…

— Negin Farsad

The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions…

— Abe Burrows

I never get tired of looking at her [Catherine Keener] and it always surprises me, despite how many hours of film I've…

— Nicole Holofcener

In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate…

— Woody Allen

For 'I Used to Be Funny,' there are really funny moments in that script, but there's also more dramatic moments and I…

— Rachel Sennott

I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy…

— Limmy

I don't have a favorite genre. I mean, I always sort of base it on instinct. And it does seem to be…

— Carla Gugino

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock,…

— John Cameron Mitchell

It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr.…

— B. J. Porter

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

— Dwayne Johnson

I can take the mick out of myself so whatever anyone has got to say about me I still find it funny.

— Gemma Collins

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

— Mark Twain

I have done negative roles, I have done comedy, action.

— Nikitin Dheer

Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it!

— Christopher Titus

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

— Gallagher

Life is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

— Jean Racine

“Nicodemus laughs like nothing matters; Ebb laughs like everything does.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”

— Donna Tartt

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

— Rich Brian

The women I know who have gone through breast cancer still laugh a lot. They're not crying all day.

— Monica Potter

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

— Siegfried Sassoon

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

— Herman Melville

If you’ve got the comedy eye, you can look at any situation and see the humor in it while others don’t.

— Garry Marshall

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

— Chuck Palahniuk

For some reason, people value being scared less than they value laughing.

— Jason Blum