Comedy Quotes · Page 285

I have always found humor in places where humor wasn't necessarily intended.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

— Steve Allen

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

— Joe Elliott

If I was reading a book about a comedian, I wouldn't really care too much about their childhood.

— Lee Mack

I like an English sense of humor: dry, dirty, a little bit off. That's kind of my taste.

— Brooklyn Decker

It's important to laugh at yourself. Especially if you want people to think you're clinically insane.

— Anonymous

Even the most tragic moments can have moments of comedy.

— Emily Meade

Blessed are they, That can laugh at themselves, For they will never cease to be amused. ~

— Ritu Ghatourey

A person who can laugh and go with life does not demand to be in control, which is why the most controlling…

— Richard Rohr

I did a gig as a standup when I was eight years old. I went on holiday with my family to this…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“I’ve never been bothered with my conduct. I’ve only been bothered by people that don’t get it correct when they gossip about…

— Shannon L. Alder

We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people…

— Bob Newhart

People should genuinely care about stand-up. I'm not doing this just so I can do x, y, and z on TV. It's…

— Tom Rosenthal

The people from 'The State' are close friends, but also some of the most incredibly funny people I know.

— Joe Lo Truglio

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want…

— Boy George

I will remember the night I won the New Comedy Awards, as I was young and unformed, so that sticks in the…

— Nina Conti

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around…

— Larry Wall

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is…

— Paul Watzlawick

I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye…

— Eric McCormack

Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is…

— Rita Mae Brown

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because…

— Beth Grant

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was…

— Tina Fey

I don't have much time for the 'sad clown' thing. It's only associated with comedians because of the disparity between feeling like…

— Mae Martin

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

— Victor Hugo

Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere.

— Mason Cooley

When people laugh at you, Thats the point you are superior.

— Gulshan Agarwal

The sweetest pain in life happens when your stomach aches, because your friends make you laugh.

— RBUENDIA

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

— Thom Yorke

We're sick of other people saying what other people should laugh at.

— Dave Portnoy

“In life we will smile, laugh, cry, bleed, die and finally laugh again.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.

— Norman Jewison

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

— Holbrook Jackson

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

— Jason Reitman

There's a lot of people out there who didn't like my style of comedy.

— Pauly Shore

The tragedy in somebody trying to be funny is so brilliant.

— Matty Healy

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

— Tom Perrotta

As a comedian, you can't tell people that they're wrong or that they're stupid.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

“The easiest thing to do with something that was bothering you was always to make fun of it.”

— Michael Northrop

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

— Erma Bombeck