Comedy Quotes · Page 146

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

— Tim Heidecker

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

— Adam Rippon

“you should learn that life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”

— Brad Meltzer

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

— Taika Waititi

“I couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t know why. Too much was beyond my control.”

— Roxane Gay

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

— William Shakespeare

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make…

— Natasha Leggero

My audience has accepted me for a long time as, you know, not a fat comedian but a comedian who happens to…

— Ralphie May

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something…

— Jerry Seinfeld

As a guy who makes jokes on a Friday night for a living, I'd worry if I was the sort of person…

— Alex Brooker

Probably spending 12 years at boarding school - comedy became a survival gene. But I think some people are funny right off…

— Eric Idle

When I was younger, I loved people like Beryl Reid and Irene Handl - really strong actresses who could also do comedy.

— Rebecca Front

I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they…

— Judah Friedlander

Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusions, I've got a very old-school, mainstream leaning to the way I present my comedy…

— Lee Mack

“I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She wouldn’t do it, of course. The stick was plastic and…

— Jennifer Crusie

In comedy, you have to do all of the same stuff you do in drama and then put the comedy on top…

— Jon Lovitz

“Here comes Mamma Vauquerr, fair as a starrr; and strung up like a bunch of carrots. Aren't we suffocating ourselves a wee…

— Honoré de Balzac

I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood.…

— Jenny Slate

“Having a sense of humor can be one of your greatest assets and equip you with an undeniable "attractor factor." The benefits…

— Susan C. Young

People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to…

— Julian Barratt

We sought a tribal society, to be close to each other, not to sit behind a television with our families and not…

— Frederick Lenz

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out…

— David Levithan

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

— Pierce Brosnan

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke.

— Lionel Strachey

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

— David Levithan

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

— Randy Rainbow

My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly.

— Dominic Holland

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

— Ellen DeGeneres

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

— Tina Fey

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

— Saint John Chrysostom

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

— Salma Hayek

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

— Martin Landau

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

— Woody Allen

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

— Oliver Hardy

There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.

— Kristen Chandler

Comedy was never a scarcity in Kollywood. Comedians of great calibre have emerged from this land.

— Vivek

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

— Plautus