Comedy Quotes · Page 310

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

— Kevin Hart

Here's to opening and upward... and to yourself and up with you and up with and up with laughing.

— Anonymous

Don't you think almost anything can be funny? Almost anything.

— Micah Perks

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

— Neil Gaiman

What I try to do is always get the newest, funniest people in anything.

— Allison Jones

I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.

— Tim Heidecker

“Well, enough of this introspection. It’s depressing, quite frankly.”

— Sol Luckman

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

— Richard Bandler

I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm…

— Alessandra Torresani

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from…

— Will Arnett

Over the years, I managed to develop this comedy career, went from opening act to headliner at comedy clubs, to playing concert…

— Mike Birbiglia

“Tragedy is just comedy that hasn’t come to fruition. One day we will laugh at this. We will laugh at everything.”

— Matt Haig

I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind…

— Joe Wright

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle…

— Simon McBurney

For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright…

— Jack Whitehall

Baltimore has been a punchline/punching bag for years - I've landed a few blows, to be fair - but those old jokes…

— Laura Lippman

People are much more vicious about comedy than about anything else. If it's drama they go: 'Oh well, that didn't really work.'…

— Harry Enfield

You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to…

— Jenji Kohan

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing…

— Dana Carvey

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because…

— Phyllis McGinley

Laughter is spiritual health. And laughter is very unburdening. While you laugh, you can put your mind aside very easily. For a…

— Anonymous

In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink…

— Anna Chlumsky

I think it's an uphill battle in every field. You hear late-night comedy is hard on women. And then you hear investment…

— Nell Scovell

nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation…

— Molly Ivins

I don't mind going from sadness to comedy in a split-second or mixing the two up.

— Taika Waititi

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“you should learn that life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”

— Brad Meltzer

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

— Adam Rippon

“What would you have? Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness.”

— William Shakespeare

“I couldn’t stop laughing. I don’t know why. Too much was beyond my control.”

— Roxane Gay

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

— Mignon McLaughlin

There are a lot of funny things that happen in one's life.

— Pierce Brosnan

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke.

— Lionel Strachey

Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

— David Levithan

Comedy is able to point out things in ways that more serious people cannot.

— Randy Rainbow

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

— Sharon Gless

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

— Andy Daly

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.

— Eddie Marsan

“Find something about yourself to laugh about every day.”

— Mensah Oteh

That messed up moment when you laugh at a joke that was about you, but you didn't know.

— Anonymous