I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Comedy relieves you. A lot of times we think we're the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic… — Fred Willard Copy Share Image
Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
The most hardcore, edgiest comedian in the world has no desire to hurt people and make people have a bad evening. Everybody… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they're cool and funny. If they do, they're megalomaniacs. — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
You learn so many different skills on the show «Merlin». You're constantly asked to do green-screen, horse riding, comedy scenes, dramatic scenes,… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
Even going on stage is a service because it brings people up from thinking about their lost job or their lost spouse… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
Obviously we're doing a comedy [Fresh Hell], and our intent is to entertain, but we're also really aware and trying to stay… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that 'Mr. Show' was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock… — Nadia Giosia Copy Share Image
I tend not to read or watch Science Fiction, particularly not comedy Science Fiction. The point is that if it's less good… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Now, with the success of musical comedy like the Mighty Boosh, Flight of the Conchords and Bo Burnham, I feel vindicated. — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those?… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way. — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh. — James Gunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.' — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff. — Haley Joel Osment Copy Share Image
“Complain. Whine. Be a fusser. The story needs those as well, because every butt needs a joke, and the audience must laugh.… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“However, there are quite a few current artists doing clever, creative musical comedy, including The Lonely Island, Flight of the Conchords, Tenacious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded… — Mac DeMarco Copy Share Image
My friends and I are the type of people who will burst out laughing in dead silence at something that happened yesterday! — Myself Copy Share Image
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane Copy Share Image
“ Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he’s condemned to hell but when haven’t poets laughed? at least he declares that he’s… — Nicanor Parra Copy Share Image
I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in the back of my head must have been the thought that No leads to dead ends, and Yes leads to… — Rachel Dratch Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
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