Comedy Quotes · Page 264

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

— Jason Gann

In a way, comedy is like sex. The more noise you hear, the better you think you're doing.

— Ray Romano

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you, cry with your girlfriends..

— Anonymous

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

— Amy Lee

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

— Anonymous

Action can make you laugh. But just because you are glad. Even if there is no meaning.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I love to see people laugh and I love it more if I can make them laugh.

— Keith Moon

It's not always easy to go from funny on the page to funny on the screen.

— Eddie Griffin

As soon as I saw 'Chinglish' on Broadway, I began to envision this smart and insightful cross-cultural comedy as a film.

— Justin Lin

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

— Varun Grover

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

— Carter Burwell

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff.

— Dick Gregory

Don’t make it sound like I laughed because I was troubled or inconvenienced or put out. I don’t want them to read…

— Eiji Aonuma

In the early days - especially in a male-dominated industry like comedy - I felt a lot of shame. We're made to…

— Esther Povitsky

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

— John Agard

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an…

— Arthur Smith

“The Brit's face shares a heritage with a junkyard butt-sniffing mutt. It's a hard-earned moonshine mug, dotted with a hairy mole that…

— Brett Tate

You have more of a responsibility to make the audience laugh. In comedy, we do have to say, "All right, it's been…

— Jonah Hill

Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines…

— Amanda Tapping

When you go and meet people in far-flung parts of the world who need help, they're not earnest; they're having a laugh…

— Hugh Dennis

“There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and…

— Siri Hustvedt

One night I went to this comedy club and paid a hard-earned $5 to get in, and every comic that came up…

— Eddie Griffin

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people.…

— Zach Woods

I remember watching an episode of 'Seinfeld' in which George can't understand why security guards can't sit down. He gets obsessed with…

— David Baddiel

There's a thin line between narcissism, even if it's a healthy narcissism, and entertainment.

— Richard Lewis

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.

— M. S. Narayana

Make all your decisions based on how hilarious it would be if you did it.

— Aubrey Plaza

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

— Bo Burnham

Comedy takes a very specific technique, specific skills.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I like the idea of using cool cyberpunk stuff to tell really stupid jokes.

— Zoe Quinn

I got expelled from school on Pajama day…Its not my fault I sleep naked

— Anonymous

The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.

— Donna Lynne Champlin

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

— Margaret Deland

I'm not opposed to putting myself in danger for meaningless comedy.

— H. Jon Benjamin

Everyone finds different things either funny or uncomfortable.

— Adam Pearson

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.

— Habib Bourguiba

You have to be comfortable enough to take what people say about you and laugh.

— Kate Gosselin

Love and a good sense of humour strengthen the entire body; remember your cells respond to your input.

— Barbara Marciniak

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

— Dean Koontz

No matter what town we went to, if there was a comedian playing, I'd go watch.

— Michael Waltrip