Comedy Quotes · Page 312

As a comedian, part of what's so gratifying for me is hearing people laugh.

— Ego Nwodim

When I do theatre in New York, I typically only get cast in comedy.

— Lauren Ashley Carter

People say laughter is the best medicine. Your face must be curing the world.

— Hussein Nishah

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

— Jeff Ross

“Because laughs never die away entirely,” said Jamie. “At least, if you believe in Marconi.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.

— Anthony Jeselnik

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

— Tim Minchin

There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It's not bad to stay a…

— Kylian Mbappe

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to…

— Jack Lemmon

It's funny 'cause the Rhea Ripley that everyone sees, I've looked into that personality so many times before, just at home, in…

— Rhea Ripley

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of…

— David Steinberg

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There's entertaining cranky,…

— Jerry Seinfeld

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's…

— John C. Reilly

The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

— Colleen Ballinger

People like to see certain actors do certain things, and people like to see me play that role. I also have no…

— Drea De Matteo

I don't take myself too seriously. I think if you can treat comedy as normal then inevitably you will get more laughs.…

— Brendan Fraser

I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you…

— Steve Martin

Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The…

— Billy Eichner

When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about…

— Simon Critchley

I really understood a lot more about comedy after listening to Bill Hicks, who died at 32 years old. He's probably the…

— Ron White

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I like someone who laughs, but not all the time, and not too loud. I like it when someone laughs at the…

— Erin McKean

When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through…

— Stephen King

Humor and comedy have always been the best way to deal with real life issues and just reality.

— Jermaine Fowler

All that I'm after is a life full of laughter, As long as I'm laughin' with you.

— Jessie Jakeway

If I'm going to do comedy I sort of want to do my own.

— Lenny Henry

I loved women who weren't afraid to get ugly in their comedy.

— Natasha Rothwell

Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.

— George Carlin

I'm actually not funny, I'm just mean, but people always think I'm joking...

— Rohit Padhra

As a comedian, I've always tried to bring in trendy issues.

— Vivek

If you let go of fart jokes, you've let go of a piece of humanity.

— Andy Samberg

I feel like all comedy does require a lack of vanity, but multi-cam, especially.

— Anna Faris

Emotion is a shot of poison for heart patient.laughter is always a medicine

— Sachin Pkhrl

'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.

— Hasan Minhaj

The funnier the material, the funnier I could make it.

— Ruth Buzzi

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

When people make fun of me in their shows, I don't say anything.

— Rakhi Sawant

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

— Jon Stewart

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

— Dave Chappelle