Comedy Quotes · Page 280

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way

— Jerry Stiller

You cannot fight everyone but you can make everyone die of laughter.

— Robert D Dangoor

Anytime there's originality and comedy combined, it's very potent for people who love comedy.

— Martin Short

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

— Benito Mussolini

I make terrible jokes every time I go into a hospital. I think it's a defence mechanism.

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player.

— Sheryl Crow

I think we're all born with a sense of humor. Creativity is another thing though.

— John Cleese

He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

— Bertolt Brecht

There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about…

— Emo Philips

Comedy is not my world. It's difficult for me, but sometimes you just have to go with it and have a good…

— Jonathan Banks

I just think we need to have a little sense of humor about yourself and just live and learn, take some chances.

— Cesaro

“It’s great to be able to laugh, have a good time and do business with South Africans from every background.”

— Carié Maas

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things…

— Adam Carolla

But it is only in epic tragedies that gloom is unrelieved. In real life tragedy and comedy are so intermingled that when…

— Georgette Heyer

The comedy really comes from how badly you want these characters to succeed and with a comedy that's often hard.

— Jonah Hill

I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little…

— Steve Martin

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness…

— Mark Haddon

Joke number 1, I have a bit of a problem with jokes, bit of a handicap for a comedian obviously, um, I…

— Bill Bailey

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us .…

— Neil Postman

“I'd worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things…

— Gail Honeyman

I see myself touring internationally - everywhere, every theater, every arena - and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can't even…

— Jermaine Fowler

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was…

— Jack Whitehall

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is…

— Kevin Hart

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do…

— Matthew Lillard

I love TV. I think I'd do a half-hour single-camera comedy.

— Lauren Graham

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

— Artie Lange

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

— Irvin S. Cobb

Can you relate? ever looked at your bestfriend and thought why aren't we comedians?

— Anonymous

Laugh, and you'll live without Medicaid until you're 100.

— Julie Newmar

“I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.”

— Jill Conner Browne

I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture.

— Michael Ian Black

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

— Eddie Griffin

“Life is hard, even more so for those who lack a sense of humor.”

— A.J. Garces

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

— Sally Kellerman

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

— Terry Pratchett

Remember your self-worth and worry less. You can also turn it into humor.

— Senoraroy

When I look at it now, the whole punk thing is sort of comedy in a weird way.

— Simon Cowell

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

— Anonymous

It doesn't matter how many times the audience has heard it before. If it's funny, it's funny.

— Tommy Cooper

Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.

— Varun Grover