Comedy Quotes · Page 300

Every comedian wants to play the London Comedy Store, and I was no exception.

— Nigel Ng

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

— Allen Klein

Instead of saying LOL, I'm gonna say SALTS (Smiled A Little Then Stopped) It's more truthful.

— Alisa Gattus

I'm a performer. I do comedy and music, and I blend them together. My band is 'Nasty Delicious!'.

— Craig Robinson

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

— David Steinberg

“The man who's mad is at a disadvantage. The man who laughs can ride out anything.”

— W.T. Ballard

I think that... I would say that sometimes people get afraid of when you're balancing comedy and drama.

— Jim Rash

I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

— Tamala Jones

I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life.…

— John Lydon

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not really trying to be a stand-up comedian. I have a huge amount of respect for the guys who do it.…

— Blake Griffin

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

— Eugenio Montale

I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.

— Elena Satine

We have home videos that are really great tape on my parents being hysterical. So I think I always knew that my…

— Briga Heelan

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and…

— Parker Posey

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit…

— Michael Shannon

I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents,…

— Oliver Stone

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts- because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting... I…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as…

— Northrop Frye

My heroes are Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman. Those are the two actors that both do comedies and dramas, seamlessly. Also John…

— Jonah Hill

The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of…

— Alan Alda

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of…

— Francis Bacon

What I've kind of learned about comedy is that when comedy gets too expensive it might not be funny. Sometimes it's good…

— Jaleel White

The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't…

— Doug Stanhope

I really have a love for comedy. I can't express it enough.

— Brandon T. Jackson

A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.

— Anonymous

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.

— Ed O'Neill

Something that's a hilarious comedy, for someone else might be a drama.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

— Mike Epps

Sometimes people need to laugh to heal through the things that make them uncomfortable.

— Matt Rife

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

— Anonymous

Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

— William Osler

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

— Marie Dressler

Comedy and silliness has a place in wrestling, but there's still gotta be some level of believability.

— Eli Drake

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

— Stuart Hill

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

— Arland Ussher

“If I didn't laugh, I'd rip out my hair, one graying strand at a time.”

— Elsie Love

“Whoever said laughter is the best medicine has clearly never tasted scotch.”

— Anne Taintor

I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.

— Dan Fogler

The Stuff That Will Make You Laugh, Will Make You Cry...

— Ruben Rivera #24