Comedy Quotes · Page 246

I don't ever want to police people's laughter. People laugh for all different kinds of reasons.

— Cord Jefferson

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

— James Patterson

Being Jewish in West L.A., my religion was watching comedy. That felt like God to me.

— Molly Gordon

To entertain looks very flippant, but it is the hardest thing in the world.

— Kirron Kher

I think humor and protest can be subtle, instead of loud and going to the level of violence.

— Kiku Sharda

We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

Human humour often consists of pretending to wish something does not really wish.

— Katherine Applegate

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

— Peter J. Carroll

I'm not good with jokes, no. I don't know a joke at all. I like being told jokes, but I can't tell…

— James DeGale

What are children anyway? Midget drunks. They greet you in the morning by kneeing you in the face and talking gibberish. They…

— Dylan Moran

I've never done stand-up in my life. I don't know if that's entirely interesting, but I came up in improv.

— Sam Richardson

I think more than anything, as a comedian, I grow tired of the unoriginality of 'crazy cat lady' jokes. It's a hacky…

— Iliza Shlesinger

A Person Who Laughs More And Makes Others Laugh Would Be Having A Thunder Storm Sadness Beneath His Heart.

— Babloo

I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer, I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer; To everybody's prejudice I know a…

— W. S. Gilbert

I've done some version of that Minnesota accent - that Midwestern accent - in sketch comedy for years. It's the quickest way…

— Allison Tolman

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

— Alice Walker

The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware…

— Louis C. K

I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy…

— Emo Philips

“Humor has always been my tool of choice when confronting intolerance or ignorance, not only because “funny” material is much more likely…

— George Takei

It didn't have to be a newfound respect for the craft, I knew that it's notoriously difficult and frightens a lot of…

— Colin Firth

When I first started working in... television, for instance, I didn't know that people who write for television generally choose one: either…

— Cord Jefferson

I am absolutely okay with jokes on me now, but initially, yes, I was perturbed ki why me? I am not a…

— Alok Nath

Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what…

— Stephen Colbert

As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode.…

— Sophie Thompson

He's a jokester, and that's funny, very funny. Ha-ha. Very funny.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed... into my mouth.

— Louis C. K

Laughter is timeless imagination hasn't age and are dreams are forever.

— Simpleman

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

— Andy Serkis

Standup is essentially part of your personality with the volume turned up.

— Tom Segura

I have no shame when it comes to making people laugh. I don't care what I look like.

— Chrissy Metz

One day we'll all look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.

— Ash Sweeney

My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

— Bernie Mac

We love super-silly moments, funny moments, serious moments, weird moments.

— Riki Lindhome

Comedy is one of my favorites, but I also want to get into drama and sci-fi.

— Marsai Martin

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

— Kin Hubbard

I want to take up anything that excites me. It can be a drama, action or a comedy.

— Prateik Babbar

Even when I go do comedy stuff live, I can still feel the drummer in me about to go onstage.

— Fred Armisen

“Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty.”

— Amit Kalantri

I'm not really good at character or plot development. I'm just interested in big comedic moments.

— Graham Linehan

Well I sure had been looking for a comedy for years without any success.

— Val Kilmer