In my career spanning over two decades, I've never felt that comedy is a department everybody can excel in because it's an… — M. S. Narayana Copy Share Image
I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing… — Judy Tenuta Copy Share Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching… — Megan Ganz Copy Share Image
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“If there is anything I’ve learned being the mother of many children, it’s that you’d better laugh at yourself, because everyone else… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
At The Comedy Store, night after night, the crowds are fuller. It used to be Tuesday at 9 you'd have to start… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
When you go to a restaurant, sometimes you want to go to Heston Blumenthal's where you hear the sound of the sea… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and… — Hal Blaine Copy Share Image
People want to relate to that. That's a healthy place to be. Even movies do this: War movies or light-hearted comedies, they… — Sean Mahon Copy Share Image
“In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money. — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“If we’re friends, I’m only the funniest guy you know because you don’t know John Cleese. Or Steve Martin. Or Jack Handey. Or,… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
“Whenever I feel sad, I just take out my phone and listen to her laughter recorded in my online messenger.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a… — Alberto Sordi Copy Share Image
The phrase 'unconscious humor' is the one contribution I have made to the current literature of the day. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic… — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
The best comedy comes from having real moments, heart and all. You can't just have people making jokes over and over and… — Molly Gordon Copy Share Image
I do love situational comedy, clowning, and slapstick; I approach that with a lot of respect. The goofier you are, it doesn't… — Jaime Camil Copy Share Image
“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or pompous.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I'm very observational in my comedy and what I create with the characters that I'm blessed to play. I don't believe comedy… — Michael Dapaah Copy Share Image
“The public mind has by now so thoroughly grown out of humor with it as to make condemnation of capitalism and all… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Watching someone getting really angry can be very funny - if it doesn't affect you, you can laugh at it, and the… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
As a spectator, I have very eclectic taste, whether it's comedies or action or very small, intimate films. And I feel as… — Patrice Leconte Copy Share Image
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