Comedy Quotes · Page 305

I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.

— Jenny Eclair

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

— Martin Parr

I didn't have a plan B. I didn't have anywhere else to turn but comedy, so I had to stick with it.

— Esther Povitsky

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

— Maya Angelou

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

— Ronnie Corbett

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

— Alan Moore

The things I talk about in my comedy are my experiences. I just do what I know.

— Bill Bellamy

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

— George Carlin

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of…

— Miranda Hart

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for…

— Iain Stirling

I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all…

— Bo Burnham

“I had one friend with same-sex orientation, and Dana hadn't spoken to me since I asked her to describe her honeymoon in…

— Dani Alexander

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how…

— Jim Gaffigan

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were…

— Patton Oswalt

“I may possibly be a candidate for Alzheimer’s myself, since I’m finding crude jokes much funnier now than I once did. I…

— Hendrik Groen

Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.

— Luka Jones

MY ACT IS 'NOTHING BUT COMEDY. I TALK SOUTHERN BECAUSE I PICKED IT UP WHEN I MOVED TO THE SOUTH. IM NOT…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think…

— Sam Neill

“There must surely be much more to be said than the mere recounting of an incident: about the loves and hates of…

— Es'kia Mphahlele

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay…

— Ryan Kwanten

In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but…

— Mike Birbiglia

In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is…

— Michael Schur

Nothing is set up like a comedy bit. I did sitcoms for 10 years. Literally from 1989 to 1999. That's almost all…

— Thomas Haden Church

“That’s all we would do was just laugh, laugh, and laugh. We couldn’t afford to put any stress in my life, because…

— Rhonda Byrne

I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.

— Demetri Martin

When we started out, there weren't that many women in team sketch shows.

— Paul Whitehouse

A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

— Bennett Cerf

There are so many stars who are very good at comedy acts.

— Suraj Venjaramood

“When life throws shit at you, grow great, big, fuck off roses.”

— Heather Hill

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

— Lawrence Durrell

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

— David Sedaris

Laugh at sorrow, it fades away, but do not laugh too hard lest sorrow stay to party.

— Trinity Chasara

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

— Simon Beaufoy

I can laugh on cue, and it sounds real. People laugh with me.

— Ruth Buzzi

If I sit down to write a joke about, whatever, the polluted Gulf of Mexico, it comes out mundane to me.

— Ron White

Humour is ahead of everything creatively. I think if things aren't humorous, they are just crap.

— Roisin Murphy

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

— Golda Meir

I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you.

— Brad Williams

“It’s real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you’re living a Tom and Jerry episode.”

— Paul Neilan

I like doing all different types of comedy - stand-up, sketch, movies, TV. I like to try everything.

— Michael Showalter