Comedy Quotes · Page 165

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

— George Bernard Shaw

If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.

— Tom Green

Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel.

— Andy Kindler

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

— Bill Cosby

I'm always so impressed by people who can just stay super mellow and still be extremely funny.

— Janet Varney

You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

— Kaitlin Olson

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

— Erma Bombeck

I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.

— Coby Bell

My main goal is to connect with the crowd. I leave room for improv. Whatever happens, happens. When I bring my band…

— Craig Robinson

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to…

— Steven Wright

Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids.…

— Bill Hicks

“It's great to know that others can feel shy like me, too," smiled Luna, "and that I can make them laugh with…

— Suzy Davies

I like to do comedy, but I'll be perfectly honest, I prefer to do drama and more character-driven-based stuff, generally.

— Matt Dillon

“I don’t know why I’m laughing,' he says, as he gains his composure. 'This is the saddest moment of my life.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

I couldn't sell any tickets at any comedy club, I wasn't getting any kind of break. So going from playing clubs for…

— Matt Rife

Making comedy is a privilege, so you should be doing something no one else can do. That's when it feels like art;…

— Lolly Adefope

I was confident and in good shape when I first came to L.A. but nobody would cast me in any well written…

— Chris Pratt

Jewish comedy doesn't come out of nothing. Jewish music doesn't come out of nothing... I don't want to be part of a…

— Simon Schama

The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down…

— Ron White

“When the end comes, there will be important things to say, for sure. But there will also be that last laugh, and…

— David Levithan

“Oh, God," Lori said without looking at me, "what are they thinking, leaving the two of us alone out here on the…

— Jennifer Echols

I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that…

— DeRay Davis

I think showing people being messy and showing them being wrong and showing them in their humanity is something that we can…

— Ramy Youssef

“A few people have ventured to imitate Shakespeare's tragedy. But no audacious spirit has dreamed or dared to imitate Shakespeare's comedy. No…

— G.K. Chesterton

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

— George Lopez

I love giggling more than anything in the world. It's my favorite thing in the world to do.

— Bert Kreischer

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

— Kevin Nealon

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

— Maya Angelou

The comedy in 'Star Trek' is always very subtle, if it's there at all.

— Robert Duncan McNeill

Pretty people don't keep comedies on the air. Funny people keep comedies on the air.

— Allison Jones

It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

— Alexei Sayle

“in this society, things you’d think could only be bad jokes actually happen all the time.”

— Banana Yoshimoto

“To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.”

— Ernst Mach

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

— Kevin Kwan

The national anthem blows. Are you kidding me? Do any of you have it on your iPod?

— Daniel Tosh

I dream of starting a three-man country trio called the Chixie Dicks.

— Zach Galifianakis

I would hate to be a standup comedian for ever. It would not be good. It would be the worst.

— Rose Matafeo

I think I have specialised in comedy movies. And people have liked me in them.

— Lara Dutta

“Laughter between two is sometimes a closer act of love than any other.”

— Oswald Wynd

I think there is something very nice about going to work to try to make people laugh.

— Dennis Farina