Comedy Quotes · Page 164

My only agenda is trying to make you laugh and say something smart.

— Iliza Shlesinger

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.

— Steve Martin

I have to remind myself that I am a comic, I'm not a politician.

— Sara Pascoe

I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

— Charles M. Schulz

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

— Steve Coogan

Laughter is the best medicine to cure a wounded heart.

— Anonymous

There's nothing funnier to me than reading people analyze 'David Pumpkins.'

— Mikey Day

“Have you ever noticed how good things go to those who hate?”

— Sol Luckman

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I…

— Sefi Atta

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There are a whole load of women I hugely admire: Judi Dench and French and Saunders were a big influence when I…

— Rebecca Front

Sometimes you look out the window and you look at all the windows, and think inside very single one of them is…

— Meryl Streep

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been…

— James Gray

People complain that joking about serious subjects is 'making light' of them. Isn't that a good idea? Comedy lets the air out…

— Peter Baynham

[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to…

— Seungri

Just from my own experience, a lot of the comedians I used to work with were miserable in their actual lives. I…

— Eric Bana

To me, being funny is more important than making a point, but I don't know. Most politicians are so interested in making…

— Tom Lehrer

Brian Posehn went up at 4:45 in the morning. And he gets lost at a certain point. I don't know if we…

— B. J. Porter

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with…

— Margaret Mead

I grew up on Laurel and Hardy. I'm aware from my own experience that comedy has got quite a fierce sell-by date,…

— Frank Skinner

I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy…

— Betty White

“I’m not going to write stuff like, “Mitch McConnell and I may disagree, but when we’re off the clock, we’re the best…

— Al Franken

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect:…

— Sarah Cooper

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

— Vivica A. Fox

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a…

— George Harrison

I started to realize that comedy is what I really wanted to do, but I didn't want to do stand-up.

— D'Arcy Carden

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

— Jason O'Mara

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

— Vera Farmiga

I love comedy, and I'd love to do more of it, but I end up with the work I end up with.

— Aaron Pedersen

I feel like I have a superpower - making people laugh. That's not something that everyone can do.

— Janelle James

The harder you try to be funny, the less funny you will be.

— Anonymous

I feel I don't get credit enough for it, the pioneering I did in comedy.

— John Leguizamo

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

— Kathy Griffin

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

— Jorge Garcia

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

— George Ade

That awkward moment when you fail at being mad at somebody because they make you laugh.

— Anonymous

If you can laugh at the end of a hard day, you have succeeded it.

— Anonymous

“Happiness is so simple in life: If I laugh then you are laughing too.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

— Niels Bohr