Comedy Quotes · Page 214

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Stand-up was like being on a Barbie townhouse stage.

— Mario Cantone

Comedy is my choice, as it's what I've always enjoyed doing.

— Belinda Stewart-Wilson

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

— Bojana Novakovic

If someone can make me laugh until I cry they can probably win my heart.

— Amber Rose

I think there's almost nothing that I won't, sadly, do for a laugh. It's a problem, actually.

— Casey Wilson

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

— Jennifer Garner

What begins with comedy ends with comedy... in my short view of the matter.

— Gore Vidal

I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to…

— Sandra Bullock

When 'Derry Girls' went out in 2018, it quickly became Channel 4's most successful comedy in 13 years, proving what I'd long…

— Nicola Coughlan

It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes,…

— Brian P. Cleary

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers…

— Russell Howard

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what…

— Drew Magary

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter…

— Rajneesh

The Hayemaker is a dangerous fellow who, when the bell rings, is on a seek and destroy mission, by any means necessary.…

— David Haye

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who…

— Joe Rogan

Heavy role in the movies that I've done that I have loved and fit my soul; A Simple Plan, Monster's Ball, Sling…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I hate being too serious about anything. If I'm with my friend, I want to be having fun with him or her.…

— Stan Lee

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a…

— Roald Dahl

“You've got to face facts and the fact is life is a joke, a fucking bad joke, or, no, a bad fucking…

— Jeet Thayil

I think in most cases, if you're with good people, comedy creation happens faster in collaboration. That's how I can tell if…

— Harry Shearer

Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the…

— Ellen Muth

For Lennon and me, we grew up with Laverne and Shirley or Lucy and Ethel. For us, those are our inspirations. And…

— Jessica St. Clair

The first series of 'Open All Hours' came and went without much fanfare because the BBC, in its almighty wisdom, put it…

— David Jason

If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.

— Scott Adams

I love to spend my more time with my funny friends :P

— Bablu

I'd love to do a project that falls between drama and comedy - a dramedy with hilarious moments.

— Shangela

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

— Bill Bryson

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

— Steven Morrissey

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.

— Tim Sandlin

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

— Glenn Beck

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

— Tig Notaro

I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.

— Austin Peck

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

— Jonathan Krisel

I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

— Louis C. K

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

— John Oliver

Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

— Karl Pilkington

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

— Brendan O'Carroll

It's not funny when you actually get shot, but afterwards, yeah, it's funny.

— Curtis Jackson

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne