Comedy Quotes · Page 236

Faking a laugh just impress your crush that you have sense of humor.

— Ira Dominique

“He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

— Cullen Hightower

When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke.

— George Carlin

People just associate me with comedy - not that I mind. I don't mind that at all.

— Scott Adsit

I have shielded myself against the volley of jokes that I have been made the subject of.

— Alok Nath

I was this extremely dramatic actress. And then, suddenly, I was doing comedy.

— Carol Kane

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back…

— Molly Shannon

It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous…

— Adam McKay

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else…

— Ron White

Things are more complex today, and I think humor has changed a a great deal. People are more sensitive today.

— Lewis Grizzard

I made some jokes about weed, got some laughs, made some more jokes, got some more laughs; next thing you know, I'm…

— Doug Benson

If you look at a bill of comics at a comedy club they spread the women out over the months because there…

— Sarah Millican

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have…

— Demetri Martin

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

In those of us who have the mysterious ability to amuse others, it is usually the case that even before we were…

— Steve Allen

Life is very tough, you know. You sit at a dinner party and talk to the person on your right or your…

— Joan Rivers

I like comedy, but I like comedy as a device in drama. It's more interesting for me to use comedy to seduce…

— Steve Coogan

And writing comedy and it really taught me how to kind of like craft jokes, it sounds like weird but really focus…

— Nicholas Stoller

I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes…

— Nicolas Cage

I love doing [stand-up]. I love making people laugh no matter how. Whether it's a commercial, or a TV show, or a…

— Kathy Griffin

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else…

— Toby Young

A friend of mine is trying to do a documentary where he brings Jewish and Arab comedians to occupied territories in Israel.…

— Harold Ramis

“Jesus has to be crying up there somewhere. Or laughing hysterically. I can't figure out which one.”

— Maya Banks

Thanks to people like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, it's real freedom to do stand-up comedy.

— Simon Amstell

“You'll be my Queen, and I'll be your Jester 'cause all I want is to fill your days with laughter”

— Rick Ferreira

Housefull 3' is not meant to be taken seriously, but is meant to be laughed at.

— Lisa Haydon

The odd things that people say to you are so much more hilarious than what you can come up with.

— Jennifer Coolidge

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

— Rita Rudner

Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

— Sarah Silverman

I can make people laugh at the drop of a dime. God's given me that ability.

— Tracy Morgan

That's like my happy space: joking around with people. It's just my personality. It's just who I am.

— Weston McKennie

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

— Don Rickles

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

— Moira Kelly

A Whoopee cushion filled with gravy adds a hilarious new dimension to a rather tiresome practical joke

— Thegr81

He who laughs at himself shall never run out of things to laugh at.

— Anonymous

I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

— J. R. Martinez

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

— Neil Simon