Comedy Quotes · Page 338

“Your boss loves your ideas ... it's you he doesn't care about.”

— Steven Charles

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

— Lord Byron

It's always funny to watch the scene that you know took a thousand takes.

— Annie Murphy

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.

— Jacob August Riis

If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.

— Anonymous

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

— Melissa Peterman

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

— Charles Dickens

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that…

— Bil Keane

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are…

— Steven Wright

You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die…

— Azzedine Alaia

Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits…

— Natasha Leggero

I'm drawn to people who don't know who they are, because I just think that's where comedy lives, in someone with an…

— Jamie Demetriou

I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them.

— Gavin McInnes

In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

— Sarah Silverman

Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and…

— Elbert Hubbard

“I'm sitting at the bar, rearranging the order of my jokes. I'm under the delusion that I'm having bad shows because of…

— Patton Oswalt

A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure,…

— Marilyn Meberg

Rory is very established in England, which you are seeing right now with Bond. But his father Roy Kinnear was a very,…

— Simon Pegg

I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion,…

— Max Lucado

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about…

— Gabrielle Union

If I ever feel like I'm messing up, making the worst decisions, or I'm just lesser than - if I'm being self-deprecating…

— Noah Centineo

It's interesting because with a lot of people who I've met in comedy, it seems not to matter what your background is.…

— Ellie Kemper

The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one…

— W. Kamau Bell

I honestly think comedy is probably the hardest stuff to do.

— Chris Messina

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

— Grete Waitz

My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.

— Tony Rock

I'm not making comedy albums. That's too much effort for one joke.

— Matt Berry

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

— Peter Jennings

It's always been a dream of mine to write comedy and be creative.

— Jon Lovett

“Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I cannot tell a joke. But I can do a situation, that it becomes a joke.

— Don Rickles

“They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.”

— Bob Monkhouse

“[he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth”

— Zadie Smith

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

— Scott Adsit

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh?

— William Saroyan

I don't have a great sense of humor, but I do have a great sense of nonsense.

— Nikhil Saluja

Every city has comedians who tap into local culture and have success but don't travel well.

— Les Dennis

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

— Jim Sturgess

“People keep making excuses, that’s why everthing happens for a reason.”

— Roy Saputra