Comedy Quotes · Page 270

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

— John Buchan

One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.

— Andre Braugher

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

— Nick Swardson

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

— Dalai Lama

I love those people who can make me laugh during those moments when I feel like I can't even smile.

— Bilal Zahoor

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

— Anonymous

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

— Gertrude Stein

“A blanket provides warmth. So does the joy a good joke brings.
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— Jarod Kintz

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two…

— Christopher Morley

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for…

— Wanda Sykes

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum…

— Bob Newhart

When you've been doing comedy for forty years, you really do know most of the jokes. And even if you don't know…

— John Cleese

“Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing; the idea of writing a novel in a month deserves to be laughed…

— Chris Baty

In Telugu, there can be ten comedians in one film and everyone gets along, without feeling intimidated or marginalised.

— Kovai Sarala

A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh.…

— Russell Simmons

I started in high school, and in college, I studied radio, TV, and film. The plan was to be a filmmaker, and…

— Seth Meyers

I know I can elicit a wide range of reactions from audience members. I know I can make people scream with horror…

— Sarah Sherman

“When you are no longer in the sexual universe – when you are supposedly too old, or too big, or simply no…

— Anonymous

When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because…

— Demetri Martin

Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all…

— Bill Cosby

I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But…

— Doug Stanhope

Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying…

— Arlene Croce

I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn't hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible…

— Camille Perri

I like doing live stand-up because that's where I started. If you do TV and radio you just send it out into…

— Hugh Dennis

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

— Ari Graynor

Nobody knew I could do comedy until I started Polaroid.

— Mariette Hartley

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

— Margaret Atwood

“If those at your top are weak, your bottom will be rotten”

— Benny Bellamacina

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

— John Green

I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

— David Shields

We don't laugh because we're happy, because we laugh

— Evans Onyenwere

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

— Will Rogers

When I make people laugh and I get to laugh, it does my spirit good.

— LaChanze

I love making people laugh by doing something funny.

— Jamie Park

There is nothing - nothing - like writing a great joke and having that joke kill onstage.

— Judy Gold

I started out making fun of comedy. Then I became the thing I was making fun of.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke

— Steve Martin

In theatre, I get comedy or nice lead roles. I don't understand a grey or negative role.

— Jim Sarbh

There's a fine line between angry and grumpy. Angry isn't nice, but grumpy is funny.

— Rick Wakeman

“Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.”

— Anne Taintor