Comedy Quotes · Page 222

“I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it”

— Terry Lander

Laughter is the 'best medicine.' It's also the best camouflage to hide the pain.

— Ces Peta

I don't see much comedy in the Bible, where people are writing about funny people. It's not there.

— Bill Cosby

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

— Pema Chodron

It's always harder satirize what you like rather than what you dislike.

— Robert Mankoff

I'm kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.

— Whitney Cummings

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

— Langston Hughes

Some people will go for the quick joke and not pay attention to the consequences.

— John Ross Bowie

“It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean…

— C. JoyBell C

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something…

— Jason Sudeikis

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

— Julia Sweeney

'Always find a reason to Laugh. It may not add years to your life, but it will surely add LIFE to your…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too…

— Akimine Kamijyo

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

— Johnny Lever

There are three goals for any comedian: to make a living as a comedian; I've been fortunate to do that. To make…

— Alonzo Bodden

I started doing stand-up in high school and knew I was funny, but I didn't think it was something I could actually…

— Taylor Tomlinson

I'd spent ten years in London, writing and performing my own comedy shows. They gave me the Cheers [scenes], and I thought…

— Shelley Long

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And…

— John DiMaggio

Eleven years ago, my wife and I had had a baby, so I didn't go to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time…

— Alex Horne

I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a…

— Hannibal Buress

“Laughter IS the BEST medicine! It’s FREE! You can overdose on it! It helps you embrace the insanities of life! It reduces…

— Comic Strip Mama

When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do…

— Lev Yilmaz

My sense of humor keeps me from committing atrocities! I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art…

— Alan Bishop

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

— Carrot Top

I think things evolve into jokes. I don't generally write them down as jokes. I talk them out.

— Marc Maron

It's very weird trying to imagine yourself as a 'comedy character.'

— Mae Martin

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

— Kingsley Amis

“Its good make others laugh than laughing at them :)”

— Joshua John

I love comedy, but more than that, I love comedy that has a message and that has some stakes.

— Jermaine Fowler

You know, there's endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.

— Marlo Thomas

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

— Nora Roberts

This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.

— Jack Whitehall

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

— Caroline Llewellyn

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

— Anonymous

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

— Colm Meaney

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

— Melissa Etheridge

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

— Anonymous

“But the question drowns in it's futility And even I have got to laugh at me”

— Emily Saliers