You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other:… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy. — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“And how could he know the character of the country? By finding out the sense of humor of the country. For if… — Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
“Comedians in their infancy are generally selfish, irresponsible, emotionally retarded, morally dubious, substance-addicted animals who live out of boxes and milk crates.… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
When I was in college my improvisation troupe and I did a road trip to Chicago, and went to The Second City… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it.… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
I think you can make fun of anything except things people can't help. They can't help their race or their sex or… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I paid attention to not being a comedian, and just concentrated on being who I was. That is what you have to… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“if you keep looking for what’s wrong you might just miss the very thing that’s right. I want it to be about… — John Williams Copy Share Image
I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.” — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to have fun and always wanted to have, I think attention, in a way, where I'm making someone laugh. — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
I love pulling faces at little kids on the London tube to see if I can make them laugh, and I usually… — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Then I will tape the sets and even though I'm not very successful sometimes I will try to cut out the fat… — David Cross Copy Share Image
I thought all comedy was stupid. I went to watch a friend do stand-up and I thought absolutely everyone was terrible. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you… — Sam Kinison Copy Share Image
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I think it's the same as comedy. They're just highly entertaining. They take you on a ride. They tap into your base… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
“It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.” — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Laughter is the buildup of tension in your body. You need it to blow up the balloon you're popping with your punchline. — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I'm at my best when I'm at my funniest and most observational comedy is topical. But anything forced, it stings or reads… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
