Comedy Quotes · Page 237

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

— Dave Chappelle

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they will never cease to be amused!..

— Anonymous

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

— Bill Hicks

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If you are too busy to share an occasional laugh with someone, you are too busy.

— Melchor Lim

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

— Josh Peck

Just past your lips there's more anger than laughter

— Silverstein

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

— Chuck Jones

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these…

— Mel Brooks

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a…

— Stephen Merchant

It's much more fun to share and laugh at the bad times and the frustrations. I find you get a much deeper…

— Aziz Ansari

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.

— Bo Burnham

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers…

— Tim Heidecker

When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a…

— Finley Peter Dunne

A stupid person laughs three times at a joke; once when everyone else is laughing, a second time when he actually gets…

— Anonymous

I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the…

— Tommy Wiseau

No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy,…

— Margaret Cho

“If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Things seem a little prickly between the two comics. Stephen Fry is the next player out and the two of them end…

— Victoria Coren

I missed the whole thing [X-files series]. And I know it went for nine seasons, and I think I saw bits and…

— Rhys Darby

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do…

— Marcus Brigstocke

In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong…

— Chow Yun-Fat

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

— Gene Hackman

I can't believe in humorless women. I think there's humor even in everyday tragedy.

— Jean Marsh

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

— Matt Berry

“Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?”

— Gerald Schroeder

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

— John Slattery

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

— Madeleine L'Engle

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

— Billy Childish

“A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

— Frances McDormand

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

— Julian Barratt

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

— Ronald Knox

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

— Dick Clark

That awkward moment when... You hear a joke in someone else's conversation & accidentally laugh.

— Anonymous

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

— Bill O'Reilly

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

— David Mitchell

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

— Jerry Seinfeld