Comedy Quotes · Page 209

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

— Sid Caesar

When someone is laughing so much and it sounds so funny you laugh at their laugh.

— Anonymous

Comedy is deep and wild and I am excited about the mysteries within.

— Phil Elverum

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

— Charlie Fletcher

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

— Jack Kerouac

Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

— Wendell Berry

Instead of saying LOL I am going to say SALTS(smiled a little then stopped).It's more truthful.

— Shubham Joshi

Gertrude's Secret' is highly entertaining. Some of the monologues are very funny, some very surprising and some painful.

— Prunella Scales

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to…

— Chelsea Handler

The BBC did a survey of the top 50 things to do before we die. Not while we're still alive, before we die.

— Bill Bailey

Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have…

— Marlon Wayans

I've never seen myself as a victim because of my physicality. If I did play that game, I wouldn't be the comedian…

— Ralphie May

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird…

— David Shrigley

"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his…

— Jim Gaffigan

There aren't a lot of roles in comedy for women of a certain age to play, especially with a 22-year-old.

— Eva Gutowski

“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed…

— Sol Luckman

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define…

— Stan Laurel

Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being…

— Chris Rock

My perfect Valentine's Day would be coming home to a giant box waiting for me, and it has a gorgeous dress and…

— Judy Greer

Dylan Moran, my favourite comedian, was walking down the street in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to…

— Lady Amelia Windsor

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy…

— Sherri Shepherd

We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the…

— Rainn Wilson

“Ever notice how really smart people enjoy making silly jokes?”

— Elizabeth Chandler

A year living with your parents when you turn 30 has been ripe for comedy.

— Rosie Jones

People are funny. They often don't mean to be, and that's what makes it even more endearing.

— Jennifer Lee

“Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten.”

— Dave Turner

Ideally, I'd love to do a comedy just because, work-wise, it'd be a lot of fun.

— Amber Stevens

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

— Bob Hope

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

— V. S. Naipaul

“Without a sense of humor, you don't have much sense at all.”

— Pen

As funny as it be by you, it not that complex. Seein' is believin' so you better change your specs.

— Shaggy

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery.

— Holly Black

“I'm lucky I'm a comedian, 'cause otherwise my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.”

— Kyle Kinane

Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject.

— Catherine Goldhammer

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

— Fred Allen

That awkward moment when you're trying to be totally serious but something make you laugh

— Anonymous

I don't have a story about how when I was a kid I wanted to do comedy.

— Janelle James

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

— Bob Hope