Comedy Quotes · Page 166

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

— John Zorn

Trying to be funny is arguably the least funny thing you can do.

— Romesh Ranganathan

There is no 'magic water' that you can rub on a script to make the jokes funnier.

— Graham Linehan

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

— Carl Reiner

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

— Ivor Novello

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

— John Oliver

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

— Al Franken

I'm a huge sketch comedy fan, and I think my love of sketch is reflected in my stand-up in that I do…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of…

— Patty Duke

To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's…

— Ice Cube

Any kind of change in your life creates more material for me, because I say in my act 'It ain't comedy, it's…

— John Pinette

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they arenot to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

— Freeman Dyson

I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the…

— Alexandra Petri

I don't think comedy necessarily comes from a dark place. But I do think what a lot of us have in common…

— Sean Hayes

I think somewhere along the line probably Tony Hancock did an interview and claimed that he was terribly depressed, and that he…

— Vic Reeves

W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time.…

— Vernon Reid

I don't know what humor is. Anything that's funny -- tragedy or anything, it don't make no difference so [long as] you…

— Will Rogers

Our lazy embrace of Stewart and Colbert is a testament to our own impoverished comic standards. We have come to accept coy…

— Steve Almond

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy,…

— John C. Reilly

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I…

— Carol Burnett

I came upon whatever I'm doing organically. I didn't study anything. I don't have any real aspirations other than to connect with…

— Marc Maron

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic…

— Mark Waters

I dream of moving to India, or Pakistan, and becoming a cabdriver.

— Zach Galifianakis

The days are long. I'm not complaining, but it's a lot of work doing a single-camera comedy.

— John Ross Bowie

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

— LeBron James

Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

— Yakov Smirnoff

Making someone laugh when they're feeling down is one of the best feelings in the world

— Anonymous

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

— Cassandra Clare

The best way to become a better stand-up guy is to take a break from it and do other things.

— John Pinette

The one factor that determines how people get along best is a shared sense of humor.

— Ron Mael

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.

— Rolf Harris

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

— Charlie Chaplin

My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

— Valerie Azlynn

There are thousands of ways to make people laugh - satire, black comedy, slapstick.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

— Ashley Williams

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

— Ian McDiarmid

I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is.

— Gavin McInnes

“That’s all right. Better a comedy than a tragedy. At least that way, we get a happy ending, right?”

— Monique Martin