Comedy Quotes · Page 307

A lot of British comedy feels foreign rather than feeling universal.

— Robert B. Weide

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

— Evan Davis

Comedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress.

— Dov Davidoff

My job is to make people laugh. If I've upset them instead, then I haven't done my job properly.

— Dominic Holland

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

— Ellen DeGeneres

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

— Salma Hayek

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

— Saint John Chrysostom

In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.

— Tina Fey

“If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science”

— Michelle M. Pillow

Life is better when youre laughing.. If someone is talking about you, take it as a compliment. You affected their life, they…

— Shikha Yadav

I think what's hysterically funny is a guy who sets himself up as the most confident, everything's-perfect, know-it-all, things-are-swell human being and…

— Bob Einstein

A great deal of my comedy comes from the trials and tribulations of growing up a big kid in the Boston area.

— John Pinette

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people.…

— Norman Lear

“Her protestations were drowned out by the sound of Gordon Honeycomb barfing up aftershock into the kitchenette sink.”

— St. John Morris

“She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad…

— Patrick Major Dallas OR

When your time is GOOD Then your mistakes are taken as jokes But when your time is BAD then even your jokes…

— Sheetal Soni

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You…

— Christopher Guest

“Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people’s physiology and seems to be a…

— Linda Ronstadt

“Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face…

— Rachel Van Dyken

Dark humor appealed to me because it was a bigger laugh than you could get with anything else. Seeing people laugh at…

— Anthony Jeselnik

Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten…

— Jon Stewart

“Do not ridicule my effort. Everybody likes a comedian’s company. That’s why they give them tips after watching the show, not their…

— Ravindra Shukla

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with…

— Fred Allen

“Look, I get it. You can’t tell a joke without worrying you’ll lose your job. Your twenty-something can’t find work. Your town…

— Katy Tur

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

— Woody Allen

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry

— Martin Landau

There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.

— Kristen Chandler

A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.

— Oliver Hardy

Comedy was never a scarcity in Kollywood. Comedians of great calibre have emerged from this land.

— Vivek

It's so hard to make a comedy pilot and have a cool idea.

— David Walton

These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

— Plautus

That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

— T. J. Miller

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

— Leslie Jones

“Perfectly,” replied Syme; “always be comic in a tragedy.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I want to be a three-dimensional actor, excelling in comedy, negative roles and even serious roles.

— Rajpal Yadav

There's a fine line between comedy and the darkest place ever.

— Meg Myers

I remember practically every joke I've ever heard in my life.

— Steven Bochco