Comedy Quotes · Page 340

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

— John Cho

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

— Mark Van Doren

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

— Lou Holtz

I'm not really a comedian, innit; I just naturally say things which people class as funny.

— Big Narstie

No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Even if you fail or do something stupid, if you can laugh in the end, that's all that matters.”

— Kei Kanai

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

— Merle Haggard

I really dont find your fucking jokes funny anymore.

— Patience

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years…

— Mae Martin

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new…

— Moshe Kasher

I'm a comedian. Comedians are supposed to be jaded, cynical, angry people. But I'm not: I'm a silly, silly fun boy.

— Pete Holmes

I don't really watch dramas. I prefer watching comedy. Also, when you're in comedy, watching 'Community' or 'Larry Sanders' feels like research,…

— Tom Rosenthal

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged…

— Alexander Payne

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't…

— Janet Varney

I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and…

— Martin Landau

I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.

— Ilana Glazer

It was always the most fun thing in the world to think of a joke area and talk about it with someone…

— Judd Apatow

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the…

— Steve Allen

I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an…

— Taran Killam

As far as my personality, my friends and family know I'm crazy! I love to have fun; I'm bubbly. People say I'm…

— LeToya Luckett

I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast…

— Ryan Murphy

I have always found men who were funny, irresistible. It's rare that I ever based love on looks or superficial things, but…

— Gilda Radner

“In both jokes and dreams, Freud observed, meanings are condensed and displaced, things are represented indirectly or by their opposites, fallacious reasoning…

— Jim Holt

I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go…

— Julian Barratt

I'm an appalling cook. I can just about create a glass of orange juice and a ham-and-cheese sandwich.

— Dara O Briain

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

— Ken Jeong

No comedian grows up thinking, 'I hope one day to have a show on CNN.'

— W. Kamau Bell

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

— Lincoln Steffens

I have a lot of respect for actors who do comedy. They do it naturally.

— Mahira Khan

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

— Ann Brashares

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

— Max Eastman

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

— Douglas Coupland

There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

— Paul Rudd

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

— Judd Apatow

With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism.

— Judd Apatow

“Come on you target for faraway laughter. Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!”

— Pink Floyd

I pride myself on making my comedy for everybody. It's not for a specific demographic.

— Matt Rife

Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

— Frederick Lenz

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

— Alan Watts

I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.

— Joaquin Phoenix