Comedy Quotes · Page 206

“True sense of humour and true, deep happiness never depend on the after effects of destructive vices”

— Angelica Hopes

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

— Berkeley Breathed

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

— Rainn Wilson

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

— Jenna Elfman

The definition of black irony is Pro-lifers killing Doctors who do abortions

— Bill Hicks

“Laughter is contagious and I'm trying to start an epidemic.”

— Michael P. Clutton

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

— Carol Leifer

When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole.

— Demetri Martin

I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a…

— Kit Williamson

I mean, teenage girls and their fathers don't have a lot in common, but when you add something like comedy into the…

— Stephanie Beatriz

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get…

— Patti Harrison

The fact is, there's good people everywhere. That's what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes…

— Maz Jobrani

When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second…

— Matt Besser

You're on stage and because stand-up comedy is one of the few meritocracies in the entertainment industry, there's some kind of -…

— Jim Gaffigan

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the…

— Zach Galifianakis

Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

— Mitch Hedberg

I love comedy. I suppose comedy is my first love, in a way. I did a lot of acting, funnily enough, unprofessionally,…

— Sharlto Copley

The funny thing about The West Wing is - and I don't know what Aaron Sorkin says about it - but I'm…

— Tim Matheson

Im fascinated by failure, and Im fascinated by finality. Shakespeares historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to…

— George Hickenlooper

Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with…

— Karl Rahner

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do…

— Chris Rock

Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and…

— Joanna Murray-Smith

Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can…

— Roberto Benigni

“Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor…

— Jaeda DeWalt

If you use tact you can say anything, then make it funny.

— Dane Cook

There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping.

— Ibn Sirin

I want to keep all the comedy to interviews and outside-the-ring work.

— William Regal

It's rare in satirical comedy not just to be cynical.

— Josh Widdicombe

I think it's important to go out and gig all over the country, it makes you a better comic.

— Joe Lycett

I really do believe that anything in life, any obstacle or challenge, can be made better with humor.

— Amy Poehler

It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.

— Steven Michael Quezada

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

— Mark Twain

I've done hip-hop videos, family comedies, a quirky comedy.

— Steve Carr

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

— Raymond Smullyan

I love sitting back and laughing at people who are so caught up in pointless drama.

— Anonymous

Too often, these comedy guys now only care about getting on and then getting off and getting rich.

— Mort Sahl

I've had my own comedy series on telly and I know the truth about politics.

— Harry Enfield

If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.

— Tom Green

Standup is just dirtier, a far more risque kind of thing.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Only Fools' wasn't just a comedy show, it became part of people's lives.

— Paul Whitehouse