Comedy Quotes · Page 278

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.

— John Cameron Mitchell

A sad truth I've learned is that I watch a lot less live comedy than I did before it became my job.

— Lolly Adefope

I always wanted to act and I always wanted to work in comedy.

— Esther Povitsky

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

— Sabrina Carpenter

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

— Tim Vine

“Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.”

— Carla H Krueger

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

— Rachel Dratch

I want to be more physical and theatrical within the stand-up. There might be dance moments, and people better watch out -…

— Miranda Hart

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

— Gabriel Iglesias

People who laugh on someone or everyone paving a new road to scale up on a growth graph know consciously well that…

— Anuj Somany

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as…

— Steve Carell

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such…

— Brian d'Arcy James

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to…

— Abel Ferrara

“Comedians aren't funny, because comedians try to be funny, and people who try to be funny aren't funny.”

— Anonymous Blog Post

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to…

— Kaley Cuoco

“I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin'…

— Clint Eastwood

I really gravitate to the comedy of tonal contrasts. I hope that doesn't sound insufferably pretentious. What I mean is people having…

— Matt Nix

I think everything needs to be played real, for reality's sake, for truth. And that is the drama and the comedy. When…

— Jennifer Lopez

There was a stage in my career, especially with standup, where I felt, because I didn't know why I was doing well,…

— Aisling Bea

I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle…

— Brian Regan

Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the…

— Mark Twain

“Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why…

— Khaled

I think critics tend to think that comedy is freakin' math. Like, this is the Pythagorean Theorem. They're not sophisticated enough to…

— Ken Jeong

Usually, if I think something is really funny, it doesn't get any reaction whatsoever.

— David Sedaris

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

— Don Rickles

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

— Steve Guttenberg

It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

— Jane Lynch

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

— Aziz Ansari

Actually, I've been doing stand-up on the quiet for the last 15 years, in the form of corporate gigs.

— Alexander Armstrong

I don't think people think I'm funny, but in my head, I'm like, 'I am!'

— Lana Condor

The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

— Robert Orben

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

— Mel Brooks

With comedies, often shorter is better. You don't want to outstay your welcome.

— Christopher Miller

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

— Gustave Flaubert

Comedians are always narrating the story of the people. Always.

— Baron Vaughn

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

— Kate Flannery

Roses are red, bacon is red, poems are hard…... bacon

— Joshua Aban

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

— Ben Feldman

Comedy isn't subjective like music. You either get the laughs or you don't.

— Rob Beckett