Comedy Quotes · Page 289

Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding.

— Dana Gould

“laugh and the world laughs with you. weep and weep alone”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I have a bad habbits of laughing at innappropriate moments.

— Zhat

A joke bombing on stage doesn't bother me, especially if it's intended to bomb.

— Mick Foley

I never have been able to understand where the humor comes from.

— Gary Larson

It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'

— Tom Bateman

I believe in physical comedy, because that reaches out most to people.

— Norman Wisdom

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

— Jane Horrocks

I'm very lucky to be a comedian, and I feel privileged that people come to see me in the expectation that I…

— Jon Richardson

I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do…

— Seth Rogen

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played…

— Carrot Top

I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls…

— Tracy Morgan

“However, neither occasion quite matched the levels of hilarity that ensued on the day Mr Miller sat on the corner of his…

— Simon Pegg

“Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will…

— Kathy Acker

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very…

— Eric Idle

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you…

— Jim Gaffigan

In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think…

— Sarah Silverman

“Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad Other things just make you swear and curse. When you're…

— Eric Idle

No other show was as absurd as 'Crackerjack'. It had Stu Francis, who was the first person I saw on TV telling…

— Paul Sinha

“Humor is therapeutic. Even if you have no intention of ever getting up on a stage, learning how to turn negative, painful…

— Judy Carter

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among…

— James Thurber

When I hit Hollywood, it was full-blown. I was a party boy. It amazes me that I made it ... to be…

— Leslie Jordan

A friend of mine was watching TV one day and he just was like, 'I bet you want to do comedy,' and…

— Deon Cole

Listen, here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don't judge you, what…

— Carlos Mencia

Sometimes when I'm performing, whenever my puppet cracks a joke, it actually makes me laugh.

— Darci Lynne Farmer

Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

— Bill O'Reilly

That awkward moment when... You hear a joke in someone else's conversation & accidentally laugh.

— Anonymous

Only man had dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

— Ronald Knox

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

— Dick Clark

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

— Julian Barratt

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

— David Mitchell

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

— Billy Childish

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

— John Slattery

“Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?”

— Gerald Schroeder

Unless it's a flat-out farce, an actor can't play comedy on film.

— Frances McDormand

“A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

I can't believe in humorless women. I think there's humor even in everyday tragedy.

— Jean Marsh

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

— Gene Hackman

I draw from the most pompous people, who are the people that make me laugh the most.

— Matt Berry