Comedy Quotes · Page 177

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

— Jim Carrey

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

— Henry Rollins

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

— Jonathan Swift

My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too.

— Harry Shearer

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

— Shelley Berman

I always wanted to make something that was real and had heart and was funny.

— Jason Nash

I think jokes on colour or body shaming shouldn't be made. It's not funny to crack such jokes.

— Radhika Apte

People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

— Josh Sundquist

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and…

— Harland Williams

My brand of humor is trying to play the situation as real as possible because I'm not the type of guy who…

— Dave Franco

In order to be good at stand-up, you have to do it all the time. You have to care about it more…

— Eva Victor

“Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I like how much better being on the road makes you at comedy. I like how strong you get on it. What…

— Taylor Tomlinson

“The curt maneuver forced hearty laughter from all of the fathers in the ballroom, who were delighted by the illusion of danger…

— Neal Stephenson

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to…

— Bob Newhart

It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different…

— Aziz Ansari

I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic…

— Sandra Bullock

A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very…

— Michael Showalter

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because…

— Daniel Bruhl

There can be a blurry line between laughing at the expense of a character and laughing at the recognition of something painful…

— Todd Solondz

“In light of all this, we’re now equipped to think about the relationship between laughter and humor. In any given comedic situation,…

— Kevin Simler

If future society assumes the contours foretold by Marxism, if the jungle of our cities turns to the polis of man and…

— George Steiner

I'm now unemployed. It's a weird feeling with no work, but at least there's still golf. Standup comedy is like my core,…

— Ray Romano

You write what makes you laugh, and you hope that the audience agree, and so far they do.

— Brendan O'Carroll

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

— Maureen O'Hara

“It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we dire round”

— Daniel Gottlieb

People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.

— Seth Meyers

When quiet people talk and you realize they are absolutely hilarious.

— Anonymous

Where I find it very difficult to get comedy from and where I naturally don't go is human suffering.

— Omid Djalili

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

— Clarence Darrow

if you like the lovable sound of an asthma attack in your ear every time you tell a joke.

— Kiera Cass

I mean, I've got a face for comedy. I say that with love. It does its job.

— Roisin Conaty

There is nothing like a comfortable adventure to put people in a good humor. . .

— Peter Mayle

Nihilists laugh at nothing, unless someone unexpectedly tickles them.

— Jeremy Limn

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

— Artie Lange

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

— Charles Edward Montague

The one and only thing that every comic agrees on is that you do not steal jokes.

— Dave Rubin

“Never let them take away your ability to find joy or to laugh.”

— Ramona Flightner

“If you do not know how to laugh at yourself, you do not know how to live life.”

— Destiny Feher