Comedy Quotes · Page 347

I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.

— Shiloh Fernandez

Now we can keep it cool or we can sit and laugh, but dont waste me and you awful issues of the…

— Tory Lanez

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

— Norman Wisdom

“Loud, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low!”

— James Joyce

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

— Michael McIntyre

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.

— Heather Morris

“I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.”

— Matthew Norman

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

— Anonymous

The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is.…

— Chris Pratt

When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And…

— Dave Barry

Comedy is a terrible way to meet women. It's certainly a way to start talking to them, but they always have preconceptions…

— Frankie Boyle

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

— Louis C. K

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it,…

— Steve Coogan

I can see the humor in just about any situation. After I lost my dad, I realized that none of us should…

— Chris Rock

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

— Jean Webster

I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work…

— Dave Abrams

Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the…

— Denis Leary

It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from…

— Adam Arkin

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's…

— James Wolk

Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual…

— Christoph Waltz

Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an…

— Anonymous

My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous,…

— Cheryl Hines

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera…

— Matt LeBlanc

I love comedy, but I feel like I need to keep doing drama when I can.

— Debra Stephenson

Somehow, it was so happy a time. Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

— Colin Quinn

Sometimes all you can do is laugh to keep yourself from crying.

— Anonymous

I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.

— Zach Galifianakis

Go for broke with what you believe and what you think is funny and what you're good at.

— Lennon Parham

There is no such thing as too much fun. People need to know it is O.K. to tell jokes and be happy.

— Drew Carey

It's funny how sometimes I laugh just because I meet you.

— Hansakeyba

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

— Henry Roth

I'd like to try comedy, at some point, but no one ever hires me for comedy, ever.

— Paula Malcomson

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

— Jean de la Bruyere

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

— Rachel Zucker

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

— Jason Mantzoukas

It is not necessary to have a good sense of humour personally to do comedy well.

— Paresh Rawal

I treasure laughs more than anything; they've helped me in life the most.

— Paul Rudd

It was hard doing scenes with Bobby Cannavale because I would break up laughing because he's so funny.

— Peter Dinklage

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg