Comedy Quotes · Page 158

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

— David Hyde Pierce

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

— George Meyer

I'm a big fan of comedy such as Cendric the Entertainer.

— Rikishi

A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

— Tom Robbins

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

— Peter Sellers

Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.

— Bill Maher

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

— Russell Brand

“He decided that for an ounce of that laughter, he could sacrifice an entire lifetime of happiness.”

— Faraaz Kazi

I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the…

— Paula Pell

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort…

— Todd Barry

'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don't have the voice and face to…

— John McWhorter

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life…

— Desmond Tutu

I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something…

— John Mulaney

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my…

— Emily Watson

If you're going into stand-up, you're hyper-analyzing the world and asking as many questions about a thing as you possibly can so…

— Chris Hardwick

I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.

— Dana Carvey

I'll read, like, ten scripts, and then sometimes if I'm lucky, there will be two or three scripts that I like, and…

— Michael Pena

It's definitely been a conscious decision to seek out roles that are different, in any way, from anything that I've done, just…

— Malin Akerman

I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel…

— Amy Sedaris

“What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory that makes us laugh. This generally happens when…

— Naoki Higashida

I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start…

— Mike White

I never really thought comedy was a career option, just something I did for fun. Suddenly I realised I was getting paid…

— Bill Bailey

Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child.…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

They sometimes beat things into the ground. They don't know when to get out of a situation. They think it's going to…

— Jamie Farr

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

— Christopher Guest

So make your jokes, go for broke, blow your smoke your not alone.. but whos laughing now

— Jessie J

My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.

— Rodney Dangerfield

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist.

— Mitch Hedberg

I use humour a lot. My foundation is tragic, but my appearance is humorous.

— Bahman Ghobadi

We're an improv group and a sketch comedy group called the Tenderloins, that's our alter ego.

— James Murray

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

— Bob Newhart

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

— Andrew Buchan

It isn't he who laughs last, but he whose laugh lasts.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

— Bill Cosby

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

— Rashida Jones

If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.

— Emo Philips

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

— Victoria Justice

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

— Michel de Montaigne

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

— Cesar Millan