I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I don't know if I have actually good comedic timing. But I don't think I've worked at any timing. I think timing… — Mary McCormack Copy Share Image
It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
Every role that I have taken on has demanded some kind of emotional range. I really, really would love to do a… — Liana Liberato Copy Share Image
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They… — Fanny Brice Copy Share Image
“Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I do feel like guys feel pressure to be funny with me, which is kind of annoying. It's a turn-off if someone's… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to… — Omar Sy Copy Share Image
We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I was considered a comedy magician. And - how do I put this without sounding egotistical? - it didn't take me long… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
What I found absolutely the best thing about comedy is it's a little club. You find yourself part of this strange needy… — John Bishop Copy Share Image
For the writers I have worked with and for me, the relationship between the personal comedy of daily life and the economic… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
A sign now of success with a certain audience when you do a short comedy piece, anywhere, is that it gets on… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write. — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I mostly, for someone who makes a lot of their living in comedy - and even for someone who doesn't make their… — Maria Thayer Copy Share Image
What kills comedy is an absence of hard comedy commissions, traditional let's-make-every-line-funny comedy commissions. — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
It was very serious and I wanted to do something really different so there was this comedy called TOP SECRET. — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
Don't take life too seriously. Sometimes just laugh at your problems, knowing it's not the end of everything. — Anmol Andore Copy Share Image
I was always very against the idea that for comedy to be 'important' it has to be dark. It's very much a… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
I'm the type of guy that's always having a joke, messing around, but when it comes to the serious stuff, you know,… — Jesse Lingard Copy Share Image
Seriousness is a sickness; your sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
I was in Canada for many years before coming to the U.S. I have done dramatic roles but after coming here, it… — Lauren Ash Copy Share Image
A lot of people dont get my humor. My mom calls it dry humor. I think that means not funny, but it… — Jhiess Krieg Copy Share Image
That funny moment when you don't understand why everybody's laughing, and you just started laughing too. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian.… — Yvette Nicole Brown Copy Share Image
We thought why don't we just make ourselves the marks of the show. Have our three friends turn the screws on each… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
