Comedy Quotes · Page 319

My life is like a romantic comedy except there's no romance and it's just me laughing at my own jokes.

— Anonymous

I had to have a brace because I had big teeth. If I'd gone to Africa I would have got poached.

— Alan Carr

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

— John Lloyd

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.

— John Cena

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

— Sarah Silverman

“The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.”

— William Davis

Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

— Zooey Deschanel

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of…

— W. Kamau Bell

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

— Drew Barrymore

I'm not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais' stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen's things. But I'm not an expert…

— Chris Lilley

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama…

— Anonymous

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

— Henri Bergson

Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

— Wil Wheaton

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous…

— Marian Seldes

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did,…

— Terry Jones

You know, I liken it to - when you write a joke for somebody else, it's like you - you know, like…

— Neal Brennan

It's important to remember that life is a joke, and that outlook grants a lot of perspective, but I don't think comedy…

— John Mulaney

The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her,…

— Eduardo Galeano

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I was... 15? And Garry Marshall, who had many, many seasons in the sun and a very long career, was in the…

— Rob Lowe

“Birdwatching, at first glance, seems like a pursuit designed specifically for people who find stamp collecting too stimulating. But oh, how wrong…

— Natalie Kyriacou

One second here and there will make all the difference between something being funny and not being funny. That's why I like…

— Jonathan Krisel

We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was either annoying to them, or…

— Tina Fey

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny

— Nora Dunn

The belly laugh is the best way to evacuate anguish.

— Jean Vanier

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.

— Raashi Khanna

Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

— Phoebe Robinson

Laugh alot.A good sense of humor cures almost all of life's ills.

— Glory

I was a big fan of sketch comedy and cartoons growing up.

— Iliza Shlesinger

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

— Sean Spicer

When I first started watching stand-up, I fell in love with American comedy before British comedy.

— Romesh Ranganathan

The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.

— Robert Paul

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

— John Green

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

— Joan Rivers

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

— Matthew Lewis

People that do "bits" and "jokes" or "one-liners" are going by the wayside.

— Jay Mohr

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

— Denis Leary

I got into stand up just to do stand up because I love stand up.

— Demetri Martin

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

— Hannibal Buress