A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Yeah, you know, I like to throw myself on the sword so that others may feel better about themselves. I tell the… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I don't think I am restricting myself to doing only comedy; I am hoping that someone offers me something else. — Chunky Pandey Copy Share Image
“If you want to get results in your life try with comedy... first pressure then apply comedy. Always it shallow the shitty… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
Sorry no one understood you were making an April Fool's joke because no one thinks you have a sense of humor. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made… — Florenz Ziegfeld Copy Share Image
People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different… — Russell Peters Copy Share Image
God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you… — Lucy Liu Copy Share Image
I think there's a lack of really, really good funny scripts out there that work on all the levels that they're supposed… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Stand-up is an art but since it's humor and it's funny - a lot of guys that don't think it's art are… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
This particular one was very, very heartwarming and is the relationship of an older man and a young boy that are essentially… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny. — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like… — Ari Shaffir Copy Share Image
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
I like when people are trapped in the joke, when there's no escape. I like to lead people down the wrong path… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
“Marcus looked down. “Ah, man! This was my favorite shirt. Who tore it?” he asked, trying to pull the ragged edges together.” — Ripley Patton Copy Share Image
“The placement of a perfect perfumed turd passive-aggressive zinger is equal to the flush of an orgasm. It is sublime.” — Angela Ricketts Copy Share Image
Dad had a music store, and he'd often bring home comedy albums that I would listen to. I started listening to Bob… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
I thought it was funny. I always thought Star Wars and Indiana Jones were basically comedies. The humour came out of their… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry There are some jokes you cannot understand until you have been a fool many, many years and thought yourself finally… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I can rap. Not openly in the world, but it's important that people know! I can rap for a very specific reason,… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much… — Patrick Dempsey Copy Share Image
Comedy doesn't have to be loud and obnoxious and beat you over the head. It can be this really small detail that,… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
“With Clemens it may truly be said that profanity was an art—a pyrotechnic art that entertained nations.” — Franklin J. Meine Copy Share Image
A friend who laughs when you laugh doesn't always mean a friend who cries when you cry. Choose your friends wisely! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
We're not just horror fans. We're film fans. I love action films. I want to do action films. I want to do… — James Wan Copy Share Image
I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Macro humor is just a person being themselves in a situation, saying whatever they're going to say, and it's funny because of… — Susanna Fogel Copy Share Image
It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
