Comedy Quotes · Page 252

If I type lol it means I blew air out my nose harder than usual don't get too fucking excited

— Nikhil Saluja

I love people who can make me laugh when I don't even feel like smiling

— Naz

“If I got a paper cut, that’s a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.”

— Woody Allen

I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

— Lorraine Bracco

A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.

— Anonymous

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

— Robin Morgan

“Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.”

— Sharon Salzberg

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

— Sanaa Lathan

In Germany, you would be hanged if you cracked a joke about Hitler and you would be killed by the state if…

— Werner Herzog

Its true that laughter really is cheap medicine. Its a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it…

— Anonymous

What's funny is funny. It doesn't matter what expense it's at. There are people who don't like that and I understand.

— Bianca Del Rio

When you do something unusual, the audience doesn't 100 percent know what you're up to in the beginning. And if you're doing…

— Greg Daniels

Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

— Rajneesh

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy.…

— Josh Peck

I think they should put pies on the fronts of trains, so that when they hit something it's at least a little…

— Demetri Martin

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in…

— Joe Rogan

“Whoever said laughter is the best medicine was right - it's also the glue that holds friendships together. To laugh together at…

— Ellen Jacob

The worst years of my life were the first two years I was doing standup. You're learning how to do, and you're…

— Bill Maher

I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like.…

— Mindy Kaling

My friend and I founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival to counter the negative images of Arabs in media. And we…

— Maysoon Zayid

We used to get 27, 28 minutes to do a story in, and now they're lucky if they get 18 or 20…

— Dick Van Dyke

Doing [a relationship comedy] with Sam [L. Jackson] was exciting. I've done a lot of comedies with a lot of comedy people.…

— Samuel L. Jackson

TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next…

— David Bowie

“Oooh, dinner and a show! How come you never take us to dinner and a show?" He smiled at Roxy. "I would…

— Katie MacAlister

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

— Leslie Mann

“They laughed the laugh of seniors observing their own plight.”

— Emma Cyrus

I think my strength as a performer is my ability to straddle the fence between comedy and tragedy.

— Mariette Hartley

I am a comedian. You may or may not find me funny, but the fact remains, that I am a comedian.

— Sarah Millican

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

— Robin Williams

Smile and the world smiles with you, weep and you weep alone.

— Anonymous

I don't want to be a spokesman for family values, but that's the way my standup is perceived.

— Ray Romano

Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.

— Charlie Chaplin

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

— Milan Kundera

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Working in comedy can be grind; there are so many guys and it's kind of a boyish lifestyle.

— Esther Povitsky

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

— Nat Hentoff

A big part of my schtick in my live comedy is doing earnest R&B ballads.

— Jamie Demetriou

Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy.

— Elvis Mitchell

Laugh Until Your Body Aches Cry Until You Start To Shake

— Joeyy

The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.

— Nick Swardson