Comedy Quotes · Page 268

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

— John Green

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.

— Romesh Ranganathan

The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.

— Robert Paul

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

— Sean Spicer

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

— Zooey Deschanel

“The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.”

— William Davis

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

— Sarah Silverman

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

“For, ultimately, isn't all laughter only the echo of an original revolt against the almighty: a never-ending scream against the absurdity of…

— D.P. Watt

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the…

— John Lahr

“Life is good, dealing with it can be hard, and sometimes the very best thing—no, the only thing—we can do to face…

— Bob Carey

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly…

— James Acaster

When your time is good, your mistakes r taken as a joke. But When your time is bad, even your jokes r…

— Anonymous

I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes…

— Jason Jones

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.

— Erma Bombeck

To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who…

— Bill Maher

There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way…

— Limmy

As soon as you start to talk about your own mannerisms, you are screwed. Because if you are aware of your own…

— Steve Carell

All the genres are so blended nowadays. There are lots of comedies out there that are more realistic than dramas, and some…

— Madeline Zima

I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the…

— Corey Feldman

Feeling different, feeling alienated, feeling persecuted, feeling that the only way to deal with the world is to laugh - because if…

— Mel Brooks

I was always the Class Clown and over time became very good at it. I started doing comedy on stage at the…

— Bill Engvall

Some people are funny, and some people are not funny. Many people who are not funny can make a living at it.…

— Woody Allen

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

— John Cena

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

— John Lloyd

Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

— Phoebe Robinson

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

— Jean Vanier

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.

— Raashi Khanna

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

— Nora Dunn

“When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh? That long?”

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

Even conservative columnists tend to prefer humor that isn't fit to print.

— Ross Douthat

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

— Sofia Vergara

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

— Yvonne Orji

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

— Zora Neale Hurston

People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal.

— Mike Birbiglia

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

— Alan Carr

My life is like a romantic comedy except there's no romance and it's just me laughing at my own jokes.

— Anonymous

All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.

— Kurt Vonnegut