Comedy Quotes · Page 277

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

— Natasha Richardson

Everything is extra funny when you're not supposed to laugh.

— Ariana Grande

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

— Anonymous

Let's face it: 'Twilight' is kind of an easy thing to make fun of.

— Matt Lanter

It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

— Jon Hamm

It Was a Joke Not a D*** Why Do You Gotta Take it So hard!?

— Anonymous

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

— Sandra Bullock

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human…

— Erik Griffin

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

— George Bernard Shaw

I want to put concepts in front of people that make them laugh or smile or even hate what I do. I'm…

— Thom Browne

There's a real freedom in being involved in a comedy. You can lean into the silliness of who we are as people.

— Harris Dickinson

How would we survive without laughter? What a wonderful, free gift that we've been given as human beings.

— Janelle James

To me, stand-up comedy is a place where you can say whatever you want. So to not use that space to say…

— Simon Amstell

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

— Denis Leary

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

— Gilbert Gottfried

I was looking to do a comedy and found a group of guys that were really supportive of my interests in it,…

— Seth Rogen

Anything has a rhythm to it, comedy or drama. There has to be a musicality to it. And everybody can't play the…

— Bradley Cooper

Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I…

— Ronald Reagan

But the truth of the matter is, that was fairly, fairly early on in Goebbels' 800 movies that he made in Germany.…

— Quentin Tarantino

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I put the storyboard down and came back to it like two weeks later and saw that I had written 'Butt-Head' next…

— Mike Judge

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity. And I think that's the reason my act has become…

— Lewis Black

“If you can't laugh at yourself, then likely other people will.”

— David Roberts

Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.

— Rosemary Sutcliff

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

— Leslie Mann

I laugh at my own texts before I send them because I'm that damn funny.

— Anonymous

“Life is a great big canvas; throw all tje paint you can at it.”

— Danny Kaye

I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

— Michael Schur

To mention people by name in your stand-up routine is not necessarily the best.

— Michelle Buteau

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

— Robin McKinley

You can say things in a comedy that you never can say in a drama.

— John Forsythe

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

— Garrison Keillor

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

— Adam Conover

The ability to understand and deliver comedy and tragedy is extremely rare in one composer.

— Signe Baumane

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

— Billy Joel

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.

— Jack Handey

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

— Craig Ferguson

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

— Barry Cryer