Comedy Quotes · Page 187

Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.

— Lee Mack

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

— Krysten Ritter

I think there should be comedy in everything; it doesn't matter what you're doing.

— Travis Fimmel

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

— John Prine

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

— Kristen Schaal

“You can’t keep bitch-slapping your creativity, or it’ll run away and find a new pimp.”

— George Meyer

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

— Mark Twain

I’m a ridiculous person. If you take anything any comedian says seriously, then you’re stupid.

— Chelsea Handler

The tagline behind "House of Lies" is funny, dirty, business. The show is a comedy satire about how big business operates. Most…

— Larenz Tate

When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in…

— Jeff Dunham

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Laughing like crazy the child goes back to the city gives birth to monsters creates earthquakes hairy women run naked old folks…

— Nicanor Parra

I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the…

— Jimmy Carr

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

— Ellen DeGeneres

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll…

— Michael J. Fox

Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.

— Arthur Smith

I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My…

— John Cho

Everything will be seen on your computer or BlackBerry or whatever devices we will be seeing in the future. Comedians will put…

— George Lopez

I don't separate Robert DeNiro's comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his…

— Alessandro Nivola

“And do I perhaps miss the point altogether? Is the guy who wears Tommy on his back participating in a clever, knowing,…

— Richard Todd

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,…

— Jane Hirshfield

The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex…

— Candace Bushnell

When you're doing physical comedy, everybody's involved, not just the actors. Everybody's behind the scenes following them, and we've got Jillian the…

— J. Robert Spencer

You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of…

— Margaret Cho

With comedies, it's been very gratifying to be able to clock in, laugh all day, and then clock out.

— John Cena

If your timing is not correct then comedy will become tragedy.

— Rajpal Yadav

Disney did well with human characters but only in dramas, not comedy.

— William Hanna

“...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep in balance." [Chief Bromden]”

— Ken Kesey

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

— H. Rider Haggard

There's a big difference to me in making fun of something and having fun with something.

— Kristin Chenoweth

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

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— Rahul

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

— Robert Webb

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one

— Billy Joel

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

— Kanika Dhillon

“In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong”

— Benny Bellamacina

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

— Andrew Carnegie

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

— Steve Coogan

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

— Mark Driscoll

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

— Bertrand Russell