Comedy Quotes · Page 295

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

“Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.”

— Mabele Simmons Tyler Perry Don't Make A Black Woman Take of Her Earrings

If you get too well-known in comedy, I do believe it blocks people from taking you in drama.

— Eddie Izzard

I find it really appalling when people talk about comedy.

— Christopher Guest

A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.

— Lord Chesterfield

“I take humor very seriously. I also take it three times a day, with meals.”

— Jarod Kintz

I think if you have someone without a sense of humor, you're less likely to be together.

— Ed Sheeran

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

— Peter Steele

“The stalker, meanwhile, stepped into the road. Didn’t even check for traffic. There wasn’t any, but something told me this was lucky…

— Graham Parke

Once I started doing specials I always incorporated "Fluffy" into it. But with Stand-Up Revolution, I left it out because I want…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry…

— Ellen DeGeneres

I suppose I'll do my dramatic turn that comedians do at some point, I'll do my 'Patch Adams' or what not.

— Janelle James

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take…

— Jeanette Winterson

Actors are a great subject for a comedy. They're inherently funny because, like sportsmen, they take themselves so seriously.

— Matt Berry

I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to…

— Morgan Freeman

I haven't seen a lot of screwball comedies, and I don't think of myself as loving the genre. To me it sounds…

— Owen Wilson

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad…

— James Burrows

For me to put a look together, if it's going to be a boy look or a girl look or whatever, is…

— Eddie Izzard

“Artemus Ward used that trick a good deal; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with…

— Mark Twain

Only recently - about five minutes ago, relative to the long-running human comedy - have parents been driving themselves to distraction by…

— George Will

Sometimes I - with comedy, it's like someone liking you in high school. They either do, or they don't. And when they…

— John Mulaney

I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can…

— Noel Fielding

In every career, you are balancing or negotiating tricky waters. But, I think that's been something nice that comedy has been able…

— Anna Faris

The great thing with comedy is that I don't memorize ahead of time like I did on 'Breaking Bad.' With 'Breaking Bad,'…

— Betsy Brandt

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

— Stan Laurel

“You might as well laugh at yourself, everyone else is.”

— BJ Neblett

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

— Harland Williams

I don't watch a lot of other people's parodies because I don't want to be unduly influenced.

— Al Yankovic

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

— Natasha Leggero

I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.

— Beeban Kidron

Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

— Louise Rennison

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

— Joss Whedon

The majority of scripts I get are in the comedy genre.

— Varun Sharma

I try and be as vulnerable in my comedy as possible, to open that door for other people.

— Patti Harrison

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

— Roger L'Estrange

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he she is involved in tragic events.

— Anonymous

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.

— Robert Carlyle

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

— Janeane Garofalo

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

— Rachael Harris