Comedy Quotes · Page 308

“You," he says, laughing in spite of himself, "are mad as a hatter.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Being funny, in some ways, is about being connected to psychology.

— Noah Baumbach

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

— Chevy Chase

La La Land' is really wonderful, and not just a romantic comedy, but a musical.

— Monica Barbaro

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

— Jennifer Coolidge

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

— Bill Nye

As comedians, we work our whole lives hoping for a break.

— Nigel Ng

I always knew I wanted to do comedy. I like making people laugh.

— Jillian Bell

With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five…

— Aubrey Plaza

Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.

— Sarah Silverman

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the…

— Maria Bamford

I'd been suffering all of my life. I think comedians and artists, we do that. We know how to be the life…

— Princess Nokia

“The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is…

— John Fowles

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like…

— Mark Haddon

I'm often asked for advice on how to go about making comedy shows like the begrudgingly accepted 'IT Crowd'.

— Graham Linehan

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind…

— Greg Kinnear

“As you use fun and humor to reduce tension and connect with laughter, light-heartedness will prevail. Exercising discretion and good judgment in…

— Susan C. Young

As soon as you meet him [james Corden], within five minutes you'll want to sleep with him. He presented me with my…

— Joanna Page

But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in…

— Anne Ursu

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival…

— Kapil Sharma

“If you’ve ever studied mortal age cartoons, you’ll remember this one. A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked…

— Neal Shusterman

Sometimes I'm doing a big movie, or sometimes I'm doing a TV show, but as an actor, it's almost the same thing…

— Hiroyuki Sanada

Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form…

— Victor Levin

Getting under the surface of real-life humans' poker faces humans is hard in a sitcom, even a drama.

— Jesse Armstrong

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

— Wyndham Lewis

My hobbies include trying to be funny and not succeeding

— Ramandeep Singh

'M*A*S*H,' to me, was about something. It had value beyond the laughs.

— Mike Farrell

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

— Gordon W. Allport

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

— Anonymous

It's very slow for me to create humor. It takes me a long time to write a humor piece. It takes days.

— Dave Barry

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

— Mark Twain

I can take the mick out of myself so whatever anyone has got to say about me I still find it funny.

— Gemma Collins

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

— Dwayne Johnson

I have done negative roles, I have done comedy, action.

— Nikitin Dheer

Life is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

— Jean Racine

I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

— Gallagher

Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it!

— Christopher Titus

Indonesian people don't get satire; that's the thing. There's no thought in our humor.

— Rich Brian

“. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”

— Donna Tartt