Comedy Quotes · Page 279

Humor is an attitude, a survivor’s way of looking at life. It’s not about telling jokes.

— Michael Shurtleff

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

— Anonymous

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

— Richard P. Feynman

I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don't need my help.

— Ron White

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

— Charlie LeDuff

“simple laugh can make a full family. ضحك بسيطة يمكن أن تجعل عائلة كاملة”

— Farhia

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

— Charles Trenet

Comedy has a way of dealing with serious issues and finding humour in it.

— Eddie Griffin

'Bridesmaids' was phenomenal. It deserves every accolade it's gotten, and it's exciting for every woman in comedy.

— Janet Varney

There is the fence of humour that makes light of any personal inquiry or tells a joke to deflect an intimate connection.

— Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw…

— Miguel de Cervantes

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one…

— Bette Midler

Most republicans are against contraception because they don't care about it. You can't get pregnant anally anyway.

— Chelsea Handler

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are…

— Dane Cook

To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script…

— Jerry Lewis

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody…

— Greg Davies

Funny how things turn out, I have swallowed one of the nevers I once prematurely declared. Well its a lesson learned, though…

— Trinity Chasara

I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area…

— Gilbert Gottfried

Comedy comes from pain, and no one knows that better than this woman Roseanne Barr—who was molested as a child. Uch. That…

— Jeff Ross

I'm a comedian. I make comic films and there are certain ideas that occur to me that are comic, with heavy, serious…

— Woody Allen

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's…

— Mark Russell

If people want to see something, I am more than happy to do it. Then I know everybody likes comedy. I do…

— Arshad Warsi

She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness…

— George Meredith

The number one rule of comedy acting is 'don't try to be funny.' Act as seriously as possible.

— Daniel J. Goor

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

— Taylor Caldwell

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.

— Josh McDermitt

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

— Ron White

When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

— Igor Levit

If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

“You know the laughter that proceeds from the heart by the way it sounds, and how it makes you feel.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

— James Joyce

“Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

— Maria Edgeworth

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

— Joel Kinnaman

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

— Sarah Silverman

I sense a humor. I sense a wise fact. I sense the humorous to be a wise choice of the fact.

— Anonymous

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

— George Saunders

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

— Adam McKay

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

— Abraham Lincoln