Comedy Quotes · Page 201

I felt that mainstream comedy caters to men and people don't even notice.

— Rose Matafeo

I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

— Zooey Deschanel

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

— Karen Kilgariff

Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.

— Jane Austen

Laughter is the best medcine but you must laugh for s reason.

— Abbas Rabiu

“Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.”

— Armistead Maupin

I love comedy that seems kind of a little bit absurd.

— Sondra Locke

“People always find it amusing when they see a friend suffering, Stig thought.”

— John Flanagan

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and…

— Agnes Repplier

Whenever I talk about my culture, I want to shine a light on it. Even though I'm having fun, I want to…

— Jo Koy

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

— Bob Newhart

Anybody that's really close to me, they know I'm really funny and I love to joke. I can laugh at anything.

— Nav

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a…

— Carl Hiaasen

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

— Ana Gasteyer

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it…

— J. J. Cale

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

If everything is always magical, then you'll never have a magical moment. So you have to understand that when it comes to…

— Deon Cole

I was never trying to be funny. Being funny feels to me like an alternate form of confessionality - that is, a…

— Dan Chiasson

I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand…

— J. B. Smoove

In the changing-room, I'm seen as one of the jokers. I like to have a laugh; there are quite a few of…

— Jamie Vardy

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult…

— Joseph Campbell

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a…

— Wyatt Cenac

Laugh a lot. Never go a day without laughing at least once.

— Colleen Hoover

I never really tried comedy, so it was exciting to be part of one and to challenge myself that way.

— Lee Je-hoon

We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.

— Sophie Swetchine

I love the people who can make me laugh when I think I can't even smile.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

My dad always said to me, 'You have got to work,' so I constantly worked and did comedy tours.

— Lee Evans

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

— Peter Steele

The ability to be funny in real life and be funny onstage or onscreen are two different things.

— Janelle James

Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

— Ambrose Bierce

I was always funny, but I didn't know being funny was a gift.

— Niecy Nash

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

— Penelope Gilliatt

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

— Elvis Costello

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

— Anonymous

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

— Ted Alexandro

The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, naturists don't.”

— Roy Station

“. . . I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.”

— Gayle Forman