Comedy Quotes · Page 181

I don't think that in humor and jokes, in whatever way they are done, there is any kind of disrespect.

— Rajpal Yadav

I am not funny in real life, but it's my work to make people laugh.

— Johnny Lever

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

— Alan Arkin

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

— Veronica Roth

“That’s the funny thing about truth. Give it enough time and it’ll see its own way through.”

— Dylan Lee Peters

You have to have a serious streak in you, or you can't see the funny side of the other fellow.

— Will Rogers

“A dry little laugh at the grotesquerie of using this stock phrase. At having occasion to use it.”

— Leah Hager Cohen

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

— Kevin Nealon

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

— Victor Borge

I was reading some books by Michel Houellebecq, and the first thing that comes to mind is that they're really funny, all…

— Gaspar Noe

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going…

— Julia Sweeney

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next…

— George Barrell Cheever

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

— Marion Ross

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

— Kevin Dillon

I like a person who knows how to say something dark at a very dark moment. The darker the moment and the…

— Octavia Spencer

As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I'll create more comedy. It's just when I shut off and stay…

— Ron White

“True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods…

— Sol Luckman

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more…

— Rachel Weisz

Every once in a while you definitely have to film someone for half an hour saying something that you do not think…

— Seth Rogen

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang…

— Rose Matafeo

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with…

— Allen Klein

Part of the problem of comedians doing specials every year - when the masters do it, it's like, 'Okay, I guess, go…

— Moshe Kasher

“There are some people who would rather be right than happy, as though making a point was more fun than having a…

— Merrit Malloy

Drama is more universal. We all cry about the same stuff. But comedy is very specific: It depends on where you were…

— Eugenio Derbez

There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.

— Jeff Dunham

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

— Zero Mostel

All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

— Hermann Hesse

My Pa always said, 'Live fast, die laughing,' that's the way to do it.

— Doug McClure

I recommend anyone who wants to pursue comedy to go to The Groundlings.

— Mikey Day

If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

— Giacomo Casanova

I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks.

— Madonna Ciccone

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

— Jimmy Durante

I think one of the hardest things to talk about as a comic is having money because it's so unrelatable.

— Ali Wong

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

— Mark Twain

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

— Anonymous

I'm not worried about the Third World War. That's the Third World's Problem.

— Jimmy Carr

There are just some things that I don't think jokes are good for.

— Jim Norton

I don't tend to watch too many American comedies. I love British comedy.

— Danny McBride

As far as comedy goes, I'm endlessly inspired by Jo Firestone.

— Chris Gethard

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

— Wendy Cope