Comedy Quotes · Page 336

I wouldn't want my comedy show to hurt anybody. I'm not Donald Trump.

— Ralphie May

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

— David Leavitt

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

— Matt Lucas

All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.

— Ron White

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

— Dorothy Gish

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

— Aidan Quinn

“It’s still all “ifs” “buts” and “maybes”.’ ‘Maybe,’ I said. ‘But if what I’m saying is correct …”

— Terry Murphy

To be able to laugh and celebrate life is also a talent ! Don't wait for it, cultivate it .

— Ritu Ghatourey

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll…

— Jim Gaffigan

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

— Jaime Camil

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright…

— Allen Klein

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were…

— Margot Kidder

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people…

— Mike Birbiglia

I don't see much point in doing things for a pure joke. Every now and then you need a joke, but not…

— A. S. Byatt

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

— Arthur Miller

I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had - I tried to do some…

— Julian Barratt

Just because I laugh a lot doesn't mean my life is easy. Just because I have a smile on my face everyday…

— Anonymous

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh…

— Theodore Bikel

It is actually really fun. By the end of the last season we realized that we wanted to do a sex farce…

— Jon Cryer

When you put comedy in the room it's supposed to be in, you start learning it's a process. Not everything is a…

— Wyatt Cenac

For me [in my stand-ups] I do what is from the heart. I do what I relate to, what I can talk…

— Martin Lawrence

Comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized…

— George Meredith

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with…

— Emo Philips

Out of all the isms, movements and manifestos of the 20th century, it was the Dadaists who proved the most important -…

— Vic Reeves

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

— Henri Bergson

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

— Sarah Silverman

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

— Donald Glover

“None of us would still be here if we hadn't learned to laugh so no one could see us cry." Hiding”

— Kit Rocha

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

— Adam Carolla

I can never tell a joke, I've always found it easier to just fall over.

— Norman Wisdom

Never in a million years did I get into comedy to make anyone upset.

— Sarah Sherman

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

— Abbi Jacobson

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

— Paul Merton

Comedy is all about timing, and playing the truth of the moment.

— Krysten Ritter

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

— Dakota Johnson

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

— Daniel Tosh

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

— Roger Craig Smith

Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean?

— Lil Jon

The tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective

— Arnold Beisser

Why shouldn't I be allowed to say stupid, outrageous things?

— Sebastian Horsley