Comedy Quotes · Page 234

I can take the mick out of myself so whatever anyone has got to say about me I still find it funny.

— Gemma Collins

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

— Mark Twain

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

— Dave Barry

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

— Mick Foley

I have a bad habbits of laughing at innappropriate moments.

— Zhat

Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.

— Darci Lynne Farmer

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

— Jane Horrocks

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

— Norman Wisdom

Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really…

— Mark Leyner

Candidates should be extremely cautious in displaying a sense of humor. If he or she tells a joke with a point, there…

— Jack Germond

Laugh loud, and laugh often. It’ll keep you happy, keep you healthy, and keep your attitude headed in a positive direction.

— Mac Anderson

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

— David Edelstein

My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.

— Nathan Fillion

If I got into a fight in a bar, I'd miss the dude by miles. I wouldn't know how to connect. It…

— Pierce Brosnan

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language…

— Justin Simien

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between…

— Malcolm De Chazal

A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like,…

— Tig Notaro

For a lot of comics who aren't as silly or physical but more intellectual, we get looked at as 'alt comics.' No,…

— Amanda Seales

I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Back in the 1970s, male prime-time comedians mainly resembled Mr Potato Head. The terrifically popular 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Club' was a comedy…

— Grace Dent

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and…

— Trishelle Cannatella

For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things,…

— Michelle Monaghan

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying…

— Mark Twain

Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is…

— Adam DeVine

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

— Gary Larson

It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'

— Tom Bateman

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

— Liza Donnelly

“laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding.

— Dana Gould

“Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”

— Stephen Fry

I didn't set out to write some female-empowering movie; I just wanted to write a funny college comedy.

— Kay Cannon

“Laugh soon because you never know how soon it will be too late”

— Thomas F. Shubnell

I don't know if any of the people perceive themselves as having been made fun of.

— Joshuah Bearman

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

— Joan Jett

“How predictable, how perfectly average, how amusing.”

— Gillian Flynn

My philosophy? Have a laugh for as long as you can and don't get run over. Or stabbed.

— Ricky Gervais

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

— Evan Esar

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

— Anonymous

Doing comedy is very difficult and if you do it perfectly you can do any kind of roles.

— Brahmanandam

Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.

— Marc Maron