Comedy Quotes · Page 329

Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.

— Nicole Byer

Kevin James is going to do a couple of specials. One's called It's Getting Muggy In Here.

— Andy Kindler

What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.

— Dean Koontz

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

— Mason Cooley

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. That's what I tell Asian people all the time.

— Sarah Silverman

I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

— Joel Kinnaman

how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

— Maria Edgeworth

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.

— Joseph Brodsky

“It’s easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.”

— Gretchen Rubin

“I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”

— Carla H Krueger

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny.…

— Jaclyn Moriarty

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

— Rob Lowe

They're always going, don't deal with terrorists. Let's deal with them. What's Allah offering you boys, 100 virgins? We'll give you 50 slags.

— Frankie Boyle

You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in…

— Chris Rock

I'm just trying to be funny, trying to make people laugh, and trying to make the world a better place through some…

— Carlos Mencia

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,…

— Edmund Burke

You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in…

— Dane Cook

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into…

— Laurence Olivier

When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I…

— Dylan Moran

To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing…

— Stan Lee

I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do…

— Jim Gaffigan

In a perfect world, I would like to do as many seasons of 'Workaholics' as possible, as long as people still like…

— Adam DeVine

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they…

— Steve Coogan

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

— Abraham Lincoln

There's nothing the people love more than a Federal Reserve joke.

— Adam McKay

Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.

— George Saunders

I sense a humor. I sense a wise fact. I sense the humorous to be a wise choice of the fact.

— Anonymous

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

— James Joyce

“Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“You know the laughter that proceeds from the heart by the way it sounds, and how it makes you feel.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

When you have humor, you have a base for collaboration. It is very important.

— Igor Levit

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

— Ron White

That's the easiest job you can have in TV comedy, being the guy who just delivers the funny.

— Josh McDermitt

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

— Taylor Caldwell

One must keep a few smiles aside to laugh at oneself on joyless days.

— Charles Trenet

“simple laugh can make a full family. ضحك بسيطة يمكن أن تجعل عائلة كاملة”

— Farhia

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

— Charlie LeDuff

I think the world has their own good, clean, Christian comedy. They don't need my help.

— Ron White