Comedy Quotes · Page 188

Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.

— Simon Critchley

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

— Berkeley Breathed

I would like to help young women writing comedy, acting, anything like that.

— Rachel Sennott

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

— John C. Reilly

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.

— Agnes Repplier

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

— Seth Rogen

“I’m a stand up guy. Especially when compared to someone sitting down.”

— Jarod Kintz

I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.

— Alison Brie

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where…

— Walter Raleigh

I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do…

— Jeff Baena

You got to have a lot of courage. Secondly, whatever it is you're doing, you have to believe in it wholeheartedly. Thirdly,…

— Don Rickles

Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding…

— Brendan Coyle

I don't think I ever want to just leave comedy and become a straight dramatic actor. But if the opportunity comes, I…

— Patti Harrison

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

— Miranda Raison

I love physical comedy. Comedy that comes from an emotional place is amazing too and lets me develop in a new way…

— Eden Sher

I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something…

— Twinkle Khanna

Alliances, in the great cocktail party of the white man's world, are formed, almost purely, on this basis, for of both of…

— Michael Salu

I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and…

— Jonathan Lethem

One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing.…

— Ari Shaffir

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and…

— Bill Burr

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted…

— Agnes Repplier

Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is…

— Emmy Rossum

“Allegedly, allegedly I say, the R.G.A. were extremely miffed of portrait painted of their monarch, King Tingaling XX, by Master. Portrait apparently,…

— Elias Zapple

Comedians, we just love picking on each other, and it just makes me feel at home.

— Melissa Villasenor

If you can find a way to laugh at anything, nothing really hurts that bad.

— Bernajoy Vaal

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

— Mitt Romney

“You’ve always called me irreverent. You’ve branded me irreverent. In my mind you invented irreverent.”

— Chloe Caldwell

“Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.”

— Mandy Hale

I have a good sense of humor. I think everything we do should have whimsy in it.

— Judith Leiber

If I'm committed to something really stupid, then I'm in a comedy.

— John C. Reilly

“The joke wasn't about Voltaire. It was about Camus.”

— Gaby Dunn

I think comedy is a genre that has a lot of potential. It is a very content-driven film genre.

— Kartik Aaryan

Unfortunately this is where comedy works, where people are the most miserable.

— Doug Stanhope

“There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident”

— Josh Stern

Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at

— Lyn Karol

My stand-up shows don't really have a theme but do have an interactive element to them.

— Sean Lock

In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

— Sydney Pollack

“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”

— Dan Florence

I laugh even harder when I want to explain why I'm laughing. ( Happens always ) :D

— Ritu Ghatourey