Comedy Quotes · Page 161

“MarkBaynard: You know what they say- dying is easy; comedy is hard.”

— Teresa Medeiros

If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go.

— Chris Rock

When I tell a joke, I don't think about who's listening to it. I tell the jokes I think are funny.

— Lee Mack

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.

— Paul Scheer

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

— Honore de Balzac

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.

— Emily Post

“Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.”

— Masaharu Taniguchi

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

— Paulo Coelho

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at…

— Calvin Trillin

You make me laugh at things that aren't funny. You make me smile without actually being here. You make my stomach flip…

— Anonymous

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and…

— Fran Kranz

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

— Billy Crystal

If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd…

— Mircea Monroe

I basically did comedy there for about a year, and then moved to New York. If I had it to do over…

— Todd Barry

I was very fortunate to have had three years on 'Fresh Meat,' before working on 'Not Safe for Work.' Comedy drama is…

— Zawe Ashton

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it…

— Charlie Brooker

To be honest, I never, ever thought I'd ever do comedy. I was so frequently cast early on as a high-born young…

— Leslie Nielsen

I love to play strippers and to imitate them. I love using that idea for comedy, but the idea of actually going…

— Tina Fey

The more serious the situation, the funnier the comedy can be. The greatest comedy plays against the greatest tragedy. Comedy is a…

— Mel Brooks

“A little shock value goes a long way in letting people know where you stand and that you care, and if you…

— Brian Wong

“Win demagnetized and then pried off the power chamber faring and tossed it aside. Then he started to laugh. And dance. And…

— Marcha A. Fox

I really loved Andy Kaufman growing up, like every comedy person does. I like when sometimes the audience isn't quite sure what's…

— Mike O'Brien

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad…

— Lily Tomlin

After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

— Bill Bailey

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

— Rabindranath Tagore

This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books.

— Garrison Keillor

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

— Alan Alda

We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

— Julian Barratt

We usually have margaritas on Thursdays but since it's Tuesday I'll make an exception.

— Chelsea Handler

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.

— Groucho Marx

- Always laugh when you can! It is cheaper than medicine.

— Lord Byron

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It is true that comedy might not be realistic all the time, but I enjoy doing it.

— Sanjay Mishra

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity, the same is true of the laugh.”

— Samuel Beckett

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

— Rajneesh

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

— Gloria Calderon Kellett

Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away.

— Kareena Kapoor