Comedy Quotes · Page 321

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

— Margaret Atwood

We don't laugh because we're happy, because we laugh

— Evans Onyenwere

I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

— David Shields

I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

— John Green

Nobody knew I could do comedy until I started Polaroid.

— Mariette Hartley

I'm not nearly as brave and confident in some of the ways that I think stand-ups are.

— Ari Graynor

“A blanket provides warmth. So does the joy a good joke brings.
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— Jarod Kintz

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

— Gertrude Stein

My aunt Marge has been so ill for so long that we've started to call her I can't believe she's not better

— Milton Jones

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege…

— Alexandre Dumas

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to…

— Kim Wilde

Comedy illuminates. And it unifies people, it's not as polarizing as shows with specific political agendas.

— Randy Rainbow

Trying to demonstrate good leadership was not our raison d'etre. We're still just trying to make a comedy.

— Brendan Hunt

I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep…

— Catherine O'Hara

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and…

— Keegan-Michael Key

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke…

— Bassem Youssef

To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I…

— Edward Norton

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also…

— John Cullum

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires…

— Robert McKee

You will find this hard to believe, but I've never laughed as much as I did when I was a corporate lawyer.…

— Susan Cain

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance.…

— Amanda Seales

My first summer in college, I interned for Arena Stage in D.C. and taught a disastrous class on standup comedy to middle…

— Alexandra Petri

Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell…

— Bruce Bruce

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.

— Anonymous

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

— Jo Brand

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

— Matt Walsh

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.

— Twyla Tharp

I would love to do a biopic or a situational comedy.

— Huma Qureshi

I love those people who can make me laugh during those moments when I feel like I can't even smile.

— Bilal Zahoor

Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.

— Dalai Lama

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.

— Nick Swardson

One of the great upsides about comedy is that you're dealing with really lovely, fun material.

— Andre Braugher

[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

— John Buchan

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

— Marianne Moore

That moment when you say,Just Kidding but you're actually dead serious.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

— Glen Campbell

Funny things are always funnier when your not allowed to laugh

— Anonymous

Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.

— Fred Armisen

I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

— Robert Webb