Comedy Quotes · Page 184

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

— Shana Alexander

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle.

— Todd Haynes

That awkward moment when you're getting yelled at, and you try you're hardest not to burst out laughing

— Anonymous

“I even, to my own amusement if no one else's, developed the knack of cursing in iambic pentameters.”

— Philip Palmer

There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm pretty much a comic that dwells on what happened to me instead of what's happening to me.

— Jermaine Fowler

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

— Selenis Leyva

Every time you come in from cheating on someone, they'll just whip out the most adorable term of endearment. Like, they'll wake…

— Dane Cook

When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over…

— Kate McKinnon

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make…

— Dat Phan

“I think I can say with confidence that it’s a lot funnier if you haven’t actually been attacked by a shark.”

— Elle Lothlorien

You behave as if everything is funny to you, but you never laugh. Sometimes you smile when you think no one is…

— Cassandra Clare

I like very dry humor. I dont like things that are over the top. I like subtlety. I like things that are…

— Emily Rios

“There were jokes under fascism and the Nazis too, but those systems did not create an absurd, laugh-a-minute reality like communism.”

— Ben Lewis

I still do live concerts all over the country - about four a month - with singing and characters and improv. It…

— Martin Short

There's no doubt about it. Arcadia is Tom Stoppard's richest, most ravishing comedy to date, a play of wit, intellect, language, brio…

— Vincent Canby

When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went…

— Rodney Dangerfield

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be…

— Michael J. Fox

I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing…

— Ricky Gervais

I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn…

— Mandy Moore

I'm really drawn to comedy. I grew up in the South, so I'm drawn to all things southern, so my role in…

— Jayma Mays

I grew up in a bit of a vacuum. And as a kid, you see 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' and you're like,…

— Iliza Shlesinger

This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people…

— Craig Ferguson

Hopefully, underlying all my jokes is an element of surprise.

— David Spade

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

— Jonathan Swift

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

— Alison Brie

I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.

— Graham Norton

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

— Anonymous

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

— Aaron Paul

And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.

— Sophie Marceau

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

— Aristotle

“People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.”

— Amit Kalantri

I find it very difficult to be funny, it's much easier to do tragedy than it is to do comedy.

— Eric Drooker

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

— Bo Burnham

I heard NASA wanted to invade your thigh gap. There was a lot of space between them thighs

— Ramandeep Singh

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

— Frank Dane

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

— Frank A. Clark

There is a close relationship between the ha-ha of humor and the aha! of discovery.

— Roger Von Oech

A joke without a point, inane and bald, itself a joke on joking may be called

— Menander Of Athens