Comedy Quotes · Page 31

I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people.

— Anthony Hopkins

We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I know how to be funny to black audiences.

— Brandon T. Jackson

I want to make people laugh.

— Abby Elliott

There's no such thing as a hit joke.

— Ron White

Life is a joke that's just begun.

— W. S. Gilbert

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

— Nate Corddry

Laziness breeds humors of the blood.

— Anonymous

I think I have a good sense of humor, but I don't consider myself funny.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Something about Floridians, man - they are good to me. I'm glad my comedy translates to them.

— Jo Koy

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

— Gloria Vanderbilt

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

— Leslie Jones

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

— T. J. Miller

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

I've just seen really, really funny guys, and if I didn't know them, I wouldn't know they were funny from the television.…

— Norm MacDonald

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

— Brian Williams

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

— Stephen King

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

— Rashida Jones

The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, "Hey look at…

— George Carlin

The stand-up world is very, very hard. There is a lot of competition, and there are not that many venues, and there…

— Jo Koy

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going…

— Kevin Hart

I'd like to do something dramatic or a different kind of role, but I tend not to separate comedy and drama all…

— Paul Rudd

Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have…

— Brad Williams

Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting…

— Greg Giraldo

It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a…

— Aziz Ansari

If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell…

— Steve Harvey

When you making a piece of comedy entertainment, the audience is a big component there. You do have to end up getting…

— Jason H. Moore

I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at…

— Ellen DeGeneres

For people that don't know and haven't seen a Bollywood film, you need to go and see one. They give you everything…

— Jay Sean

I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these…

— Ricky Gervais

Yes, I have this crazy honk of a laugh.

— Jimmy Carr

If you don't think you're funny, no one else will.

— Joan Rivers

All humor is rooted in pain.

— Richard Pryor

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

— Anonymous

I started doing comedy in a church.

— Anjelah Johnson

Mr. Frazier makes me laugh out loud.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The only real laughter comes from despair.

— Groucho Marx

Comedy is the only hope for humanity.

— Roseanne Barr