Comedy Quotes · Page 275

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

— Mason Cooley

Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.

— Nicole Byer

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete!

— Eddie Izzard

It is hard for power to enjoy or incorporate humour and satire in its system of control.

— Dario Fo

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

— Jennifer Lee Carrell

I'm really into comedy where you're not sure whether you're supposed to be laughing or crying.

— Simon Amstell

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

— Eddie Izzard

I want to do a romantic comedy that nobody thought I could do. And then do a comedy with Dan Aykroyd that…

— John Belushi

When you do your comedy and your drama, your acting style doesn't change. If it's a comedy, the situations and the characters…

— Jonah Hill

I really like doing television shows, and I anticipated doing a comedy, because that's the place I feel the most comfortable -…

— Lizzy Caplan

It's crazy because people expect you to be funny all the time and every day is not a funny day. I go…

— Chris Tucker

When I was starting out, I was just bringing a garbage bag of jokes onstage, pulling them out like, 'What about this?…

— W. Kamau Bell

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That…

— Ricky Gervais

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive…

— Horace

No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go…

— George Carlin

As a comedian, you're making so many observations, so many measurements. You might catch someone's eyes as you're telling a joke, and…

— Sean Lock

Sometimes, when people are talking to me about something I have no interest in and that glazed over look takes me, I…

— Anonymous

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I…

— Kevin Hart

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's…

— Jonah Hill

Recognizing absolutely depends on the public that I'm out with. If I'm in Atlanta, it's definitely Why Did I Get Married. If…

— Michael Jai White

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or…

— David Levithan

“Perhaps it is his goofy laugh and silly grin that made people underestimate him; certainly his playfulness contributed to that perception. At…

— Richard Brandt

“If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about…

— Jane Yolen

“I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine.”

— Amit Kalantri

John Ford was so funny that I couldn't wait to go to work in the morning.

— Richard Widmark

I think comedy is a really, really good tool for trying to say something.

— Zach Galifianakis

It's not appropriate to joke about the Ku Klux Klan.

— Mitt Romney

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

— Richard Russo

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

— Dean Koontz

Kevin James is going to do a couple of specials. One's called It's Getting Muggy In Here.

— Andy Kindler

Everyone at his table laughs. They know I can hear them. They just don't care.

— Susane Colasanti

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

— Richard Pryor

“He who laughs last doesn’t get it.” —HELEN GIANGREGORIO”

— Daniel H. Pink

For me to act natural and real but also try to be funny while doing that is hard.

— Seth Rogen

Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role.

— Wei Wu Wei

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

— Rachel Dratch

The moment yo're laughing so hard and you try and stop, but you look at the person again and laugh. :3

— Anonymous

[Al] Franken is left-wing and funny. He's a pretty good political humorist.

— P. J. O'Rourke