Comedy Quotes · Page 185

I did a club one night - the speakers were old as hell. My jokes were coming out in black and white.

— J. B. Smoove

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

— Joseph Barbera

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

— Horace Walpole

I'm a comedian because I want people to like me. That's really why all comedians are comedians.

— Tim Minchin

Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field

— Jerry Stiller

“Laughter paves the way for many things. It's one way to build intimacy between”

— Berkun, Scott

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

— Sir Fulke Greville

Together with script writers Syd green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

— Eric Morecambe

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell…

— Jay Roach

I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

— William Ralph Inge

I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than…

— Tom Scharpling

It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies…

— Zach Galifianakis

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to…

— Paul Goodman

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

— Sheila Ballantyne

I am a huge believer - I always have been - in the power of comedy. That comedy will break hatred and…

— Jeffrey Tambor

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and…

— Mike Nichols

I've done a number of these My Name is Earl shows. I play Earl's father. It's a half-hour comedy. And I'll be…

— Beau Bridges

I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well,…

— Louis C. K

I'm always drawn towards the darker stuff, because I think it's just a lot more interesting. But it's also good fun doing…

— Iwan Rheon

I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me…

— Chris D'Elia

God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will…

— Rajneesh

People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different…

— Russell Peters

You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you…

— Lucy Liu

I think there's a lack of really, really good funny scripts out there that work on all the levels that they're supposed…

— Jason Biggs

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."

— Keegan-Michael Key

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

— Ray Stevenson

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

— Josh Billings

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

— Buddy Hackett

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

As for doing more dramatic work over comedy, I do whatever turns me on at the moment.

— Sandra Bullock

You know you're a hot mess when the only person buying you drinks all night is yourself.

— Chelsea Handler

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

— Beth Ditto

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

— Edmund Waller

“You can laugh in the face of danger, if you're toothless.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

— Christine McVie

People come up to me... concerned... that I'll reproduce.

— Emo Philips

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

— Alan Alda

I guess funny people are attracted to funny people, and then you get comedy marriages.

— Casey Wilson

“Every body has a tickle spot, somtimes you just have to find it.”

— Derek Jeter

I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

— Russell Howard