Comedy Quotes · Page 190

Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be.

— Joan Rivers

It gets me, physical comedy. There's nothing better than it.

— Freddie Fox

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

— William Somerset Maugham

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

— Jeannette Walls

I started comedy in 2006. I didn't even think it was a thing I could do.

— Yvonne Orji

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

A good comedian can make serious political points while also having a giggle.

— Rosie Jones

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

— Martin Short

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an…

— Douglas Sirk

“Have a good laugh at this, ... Deep down, I never for a second never thought they would find anything.”

— Tana French

We're delighted that Freddie Flintstone and his friends have made such a hit. The comedy is not the old cartoon slapstick. Most…

— William Hanna

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

— Robert Breault

I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's…

— Brad Williams

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity -…

— Hank Ketcham

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

— Edwin H Friedman

Im literally my own best friend. I have inside jokes with myself, sometimes Ill start laughing out loud at how funny I…

— Ted

The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic…

— Frank Partnoy

You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to…

— Giorgos Seferis

If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to…

— Jack Bruce

I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused…

— Nicholas Stoller

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the…

— Rajneesh

Whereas Absurdism in Europe seemed a logical, almost inevitable response to the irrationality of war, the analogous elements that surfaced in American…

— Arnold Aronson

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until…

— Linda Ellerbee

Growing up, I didn't really watch a lot of standup. I didn't know you could be a low-energy comedian. It was something…

— Dan Mintz

“I'm probably laughing at myself more than anyone is, because I'm around me all the time.”

— Tim Kinsella

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

— Red Skelton

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

— Matt Walsh

Stand-up is always most important because that's what got me here. It's always first.

— Deon Cole

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

— Jared Leto

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

— Jerry Seinfeld

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

— Bob Newhart

A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

— Oscar Levant

It's a huge high to be able to earn a nice living doing the thing I love most - making comedy.

— Dan Schneider

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

— Will Rogers

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

— Charles R. Swindoll

Comedy is still sexist. There is still this sense that women can't be trusted to be funny.

— Rebecca Front

The one thing that disturbs me about Alec is that people don't realize that he's really funny.

— Daniel Baldwin

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

— Doug Benson

Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.

— Noel Coward