Comedy Quotes · Page 175

“Asking someone else to drive your sports car is like asking someone else to kiss your girlfriend.”

— Amit Kalantri

We are all only Gods joke here having the same punch line.

— Vikrant Parsai

When you don't understand something, you often laugh.

— Bill Cosby

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

— Jerry Seinfeld

I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.

— Jamie Foxx

I think it's almost easier to make people cry than to make people laugh

— Sophie Marceau

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

— Wyatt Cenac

I watch a lot of comedy; I'm a comedy nerd and have watched a lot of it over the years.

— Lauren Ash

“To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness…

— Paul Rust

I never felt any pressure to be funny. A lot of the funny stuff I did was more off-the-cuff. I might be…

— Jimmy Bullard

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes…

— Dick Cavett

Before committing suicide, Please only to be stopped for a minute,next minute will you meet to people laughed

— Mak_786

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

— Tom Sizemore

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the…

— Mayim Bialik

I recently finished a job, an HBO movie 'Getting On,' a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the…

— Niecy Nash

People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a…

— Dylan Moran

“It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with…

— Weston Locher

Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter…

— Glenn Close

I try to write three jokes every morning, although I don't know what they are. I write them as fast as I…

— Anthony Jeselnik

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the…

— Anonymous

I think we're going to transition with our comedy programming, trying to broaden the audience and broaden what the network does. Those…

— Robert Greenblatt

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a…

— Duffy Daugherty

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

— John Oliver

It's on the bucket list for sure to do a comedy film, even if it was just one line on the lot.

— Miranda Hart

“People with senses of humor always have perspective.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

— David Steinberg

I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.

— Christopher Meloni

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.

— George Santayana

“I laughed at them. Not because I thought they had no power to harm me, but because they had.”

— Mark Lawrence

Audiences want comedy that has no venom. They want to have a laugh without it becoming twee.

— Peter Kay

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.

— Rooney Mara

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

— Steven Wright

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

— David Sedaris

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

— Mahogany SilverRain

My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament!

— Nick Kler

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

— Rex Stout

When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.

— Anonymous

When the joke is on you, your sense of humour gets a reality check.

— Nikhil Saluja