The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear. — Prunella Scales Copy Share Image
As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
If you can get the crew to laugh on a show, you know that you're doing something. — Kevin Clash Copy Share Image
A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I'm glad I'm a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points. — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you say something funny… and no one laughs — Lauren Willcox Copy Share Image
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Because such a massive part of stand-up is trying and failing first, I'm not putting as much pressure on. Just going out… — James Acaster Copy Share Image
Like most comedians, I have crippling low self-esteem, so I always think that what I've just done is rubbish. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
“Act always as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I loved 'Penny Spubbs' and 'We Are Klang,' maybe because I watched them before I started comedy so it was a purer… — Lou Sanders Copy Share Image
Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others.… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
There's no excuse for panel games, other TV comedy shows, or even live bills to be made up mainly of men. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse.… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
All of the elements of the comic way tend to spread to others, insinuating joy where it was previously absent. Conversation has… — Joseph Rusling Meeker Copy Share Image
“A standard feature of situation comedy has some form of the main character "talking trash" to someone about a husband, wife, girl… — Karl Albrecht Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, there weren't a whole lot of roles for Hispanics in the Eighties, so comedy was really the way I… — Steven Michael Quezada Copy Share Image
As a comedian, I can walk out in front of 5000 people and not worry about a thing. Not a thing, believe… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“Alec laughed, a short, brittle laugh. “The day I’m wise is the day you’re careful.” — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. — Dave Chappelle Copy Share Image
In my comedy, I put things through a lens that is very specific to me. — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
Comedy Central does a really good job of finding totally different comedies. — Jillian Bell Copy Share Image
The space between the tears we cry is the laughter that keeps us coming back for more — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care. — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish? — Julia Sweeney Copy Share Image
When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper." — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Every time I get poked, I laugh...((Feeling like the Pillsbury Dough Boy!)) :) — Shirley Ramos Copy Share Image
Anyone who can't tell the difference between a joke and hate speech is just stupid. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
