Comedy Quotes · Page 213

Comedy helped me open up and be vulnerable with people and actually listen when people talk.

— Chris Redd

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

— Jill Sobule

Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.

— Brian Posehn

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!

— Katherine Ryan

“Life is sweet absurdity, Sir Wizard. Laugh your way through it.”

— Lita Burke

I like people to have a bit of a laugh. Life is too short to not enjoy what you're doing.

— Bradley Walsh

Romantic comedies, if done badly, can be catastrophic.

— Karla Souza

I love the buzz of doing live. I am a stand-up comedian and so I am not scared of live.

— Alan Carr

'Lakshya' is a different genre of movie. While 'Dil Chahta Hai' could be categorised as a romantic comedy, this is a war…

— Farhan Akhtar

I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured.…

— Flip Wilson

Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does,…

— Ian Frazier

Well, you know, I feel like it's about a lot of things. The reason that I made it was because I thought…

— Danny DeVito

I'm drawn to more than I'm allowed to do or asked to do, or probably should do. My whole career has been…

— Steve Pink

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

— Fred Armisen

I dropped out of school when I was 14 and I was hanging out with comedians in their thirties. I moved out…

— Mae Martin

“It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.”

— Frederick Busch

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material.…

— Daniel Tosh

Comedians are therapists. People honestly think we're doing it for ourselves. No. If we wanted to do stand-up for ourselves, we would…

— J. B. Smoove

Jason [Nash] is just someone that I've known socially and through his stand-up, seeing him do different comedy shows, and I just…

— Busy Philipps

Later, when I was at Caesar's Palace, and [Joe and Gil Cates] were trying to get me to have opening acts for…

— David Copperfield

“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to…

— Paul Murray

It's often pointed out that in Cuban cinema there are too many comedies, but a sense of humor is so much part…

— Fernando Perez

As a man who tried to explain in his own way that people have to learn to get along with each other.…

— Sherwood Schwartz

You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you're wrong. If you're doing it…

— Russell Peters

“Laughs are just like smiles. People use them to express an array of confounding emotions.”

— Nita Prose

I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'

— Gillian Jacobs

As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke.

— Michael Scott

I like questions that tee me up to make weird jokes, frankly.

— Colson Whitehead

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

— Christopher Fry

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

— Mel Brooks

In our world, all puns are beautiful and they are the highest form of comedy.

— Greg Proops

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

— Josh Peck

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

— Bill Mauldin

Friendship is a Building Contract that you sign with a laughter and break with tears.

— Norden

If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?

— Tiger Woods

“I don't drink to make others look better, I just drink to make myself feel prettier.”

— Brooke Bida

Laughter IS the best medicine, unless you throw out your back from laughing too hard.

— Anonymous

I want to do different projects and be versatile. I don't want to get fixed into narrative comedy.

— Jason Gann

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.

— Leonard Maltin