Comedy Quotes · Page 204

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.

— Jack Dee

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

— Billy Wilder

There's no great secret or plan, I just think I'm funny and I want to make people laugh.

— Peter Kay

I have a self-deprecating sense of humor, so I knock myself.

— Big Show

I have to do stand-up. I have to do something comedy-involved every day, or else I will lose my mind.

— Pete Davidson

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

— Jimmy Carr

You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.

— Sophia Loren

Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.

— Mason Cooley

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of…

— Isaac Asimov

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

I always think about my jokes as like I'm driving down a street, trying to go into all the culs-de-sacs along the…

— Michelle Wolf

I have always felt that the rise of what became known as alternative comedy was born out of the loins of the…

— Tony Robinson

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having…

— Ricky Gervais

What am I supposed to do if I go bald? Get a wig? Fat, goofy, gay, wig. I might as well get…

— Alan Carr

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what…

— Steve Martin

“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a…

— Romesh Ranganathan

If I had to give my younger self some advice, I think it would be that you have to laugh at things-things…

— Taylor Swift

I'm discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself…

— Anonymous

“In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and…

— Tom Robbins

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh,…

— Samuel Beckett

As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long…

— Nikolai Gogol

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…

— Margo Jefferson

“Laughter may not be nearly as expressive as language, but it has two properties that make it ideal for navigating sensitive topics.…

— Kevin Simler

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

— Larry David

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

— Ciaran Hinds

I think what I realized is I want to do everything, but I love to always go back to comedy.

— Molly Gordon

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

— George Eliot

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

— Seth MacFarlane

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

— Wanda Sykes

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.

— Elizabeth Meriwether

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

— Regina Hall

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

— Sam Kinison

Comedy comes with a bit of sarcasm, wit and edginess.

— Kiku Sharda

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Remember that one bares their teeth while laughing.”

— Matthew Sharpe

I don't really tell a joke per se, I build up an attitude and it becomes a joke.

— Don Rickles

Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.

— Bam Margera

Being a comedian is probably the only job apart from undertaking that isn't age restricted.

— Peter Kay