Comedy Quotes · Page 223

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

— Goldie Hawn

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

— Leah Hager Cohen

“A squee is a spontaneous expression of delight. SQUEE!”

— Gina Blaxill

I'm always happy to pitch in and do something. Everybody needs to be laughing a little.

— Chelsea Handler

You're running to be prime minister - it's hard to be the person who makes jokes.

— Ed Miliband

What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful.

— Barack Obama

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

— J.R. Ward

If there are things that are off limits, why would you do standup?

— Eddie Griffin

“What did I tell you about that giggle? If you start now, you’ll go all evening and get all my patients started…

— C.L. Stone

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just…

— Pharrell Williams

I'm a Sit Down Stand Up Comedian, whatever the hell that is. Maybe a writer with a short attention span and one…

— Rock Cowles

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could…

— Larry David

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

— Joan Rivers

I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before.…

— Aziz Ansari

I like the ironic pomposity of a stand-up comedian. Like all those comedians thinking they can bring down Coca-Cola. They forget to…

— Ricky Gervais

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go…

— George Bernard Shaw

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And…

— Dane Cook

The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. Theres been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the…

— Albert Brooks

Do you ever leave a message for somebody and the answering machine cuts you off, and you have to decide whether you…

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm at a very frustrating point in my career because I'm not a millionaire. Like, people assume because you're in movies or…

— Aries Spears

I'm lucky that I get to jump around, do a big-budget comedy and then a smaller film. I don't even make a…

— Richard Linklater

I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainly have no…

— Taran Killam

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my…

— Mindy Kaling

How come they don't think you can handle a new story out of the blue on the TV news? They gotta make…

— Brian Regan

I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say.

— Anthony Jeselnik

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

— Amy Krouse Rosenthal

I consider myself to be doing comedy in a post-Jon Stewart world to a certain extent.

— Adam Conover

Rob and I both have a problem with taking jokes too far.

— Ayda Field

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

— Alice Meynell

I had been writing and performing stand-up comedy pretty much the entire time I worked at Google.

— Sarah Cooper

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

— Alice Meynell

Business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

— Ronnie Apteker

It's fun to go to a job where you know you're going to laugh before the day is over.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away

— John Mellencamp

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.

— Anonymous

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

— Andy Warhol

I always say that the stand-up world is the arena of the unwell, and it is.

— Johnny Vegas

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

— Nicole Ari Parker

I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh.

— Hope Davis

I think I am someone who is very interested in structure and different ways of delivering jokes.

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg