Comedy Quotes · Page 169

The only contagious thing I want to catch is laughter.

— Laura S

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

— Melissa Rauch

I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.

— Judd Apatow

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

— Salma Hayek

A couple that laughes together stays together zeflove zaan&shaney

— Shaney Backhoff

People will do anything, anything, for a really nice laugh,

— Lorrie Moore

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

— Dario Fo

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

— Vicki Lawrence

There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear…

— Ronnie Corbett

I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have…

— Ciaran Hinds

I don't understand why there is such a trend now for comedy to be cruel. Once you're cruel, you're not a comedian…

— Omid Djalili

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there…

— Alice Sebold

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh…

— Arlo Guthrie

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

— Tommy Chong

When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

— Leslie Nielsen

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.

— Jack Whitehall

I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I…

— Mathew Baynton

I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am,…

— Hari Kondabolu

If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington…

— W. Kamau Bell

I think I'm known mostly for comedy because most of the work I've done is comedy and that is in turn because…

— Ranvir Shorey

“Artist communities love to bullshit each other and glad-hand one another, and there's no room for the crippling honesty of comedy. "I'm…

— Doug Stanhope

I can do comedy but it's a certain type. I'm not a physical comedy guy. I'm not Will Ferrell - there's just…

— Mekhi Phifer

There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so…

— Adam DeVine

For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of…

— Jim Gaffigan

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

— Mike Myers

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

— Calvin Trillin

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

— Merrie Spaeth

There's truth in comedy, and that resonates with people of all races.

— Jessica Williams

It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.

— Harold MacMillan

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

— Adam Pally

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

— Charles Simmons

That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

— Godfrey

The real mystery isn't what's under the redaction mark, but what's above it

— Anonymous

People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races.

— Clint Eastwood

Wonders if that is snow outside or if Amy Winehouse just sneezed.

— Serenity Karma

'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.

— George C. Wolfe

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

— Anonymous

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

— Virginia Woolf

“Even if it's a witty, singing and dancing turd, it's still a turd.”

— Stephen King

“The day you lose your ability to make me laugh, I’ll know that life isn’t worth living.”

— Paul Pilkington