It's hard to be a national punch line unless lots of voters have soured on you. — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at. — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
To make 800 people laugh for a couple of hours is a wonderful feeling, because you know you're doing them a lot… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
Comedy is great in that it's accessible to someone like me, from a low socioeconomic background, struggling in life. The gatekeepers are… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
Humor is a show of both strength and of vulnerability: you are willing to make the first move but you are trusting… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
I'm lucky. I've worked with extremely talented women who won't sacrifice comedy to make themselves look better. — Heather Burns Copy Share Image
I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
The funniest people I know always seem to be the ones surrounded by darkness. And that’s probably why they’re the funniest. The… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
When I first started doing press interviews, the big question was, 'Do you think women are funny?' People would ask you that… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.… — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
When you start doing comedy, you think to yourself, "I want to be a headliner." And you become a headliner, and you're… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Eunice had deposited St John upon the balcony of the first-floor apartment of former Liberal MP, The Rt. Hon. Leonard Cossins, the… — St. John Morris Copy Share Image
Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Comedy is so subjective, you know what I mean? To sit there and technically pick it apart is so stupid. — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
I think it's terribly difficult to take sex seriously if you've got a sense of humor. — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I'm a big cultural pusher when it comes to hip-hop, disco music, comedy, all that stuff that I love. — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I'll do a joke on purpose that really doesn't work just to show that that's funny. — Deon Cole Copy Share Image
I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it. — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process. — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
