Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity. — Carson Kressley Copy Share Image
To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Laughter brings in a special friendship. Laughter brings in love and laughter brings in a new wonderful life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
I can't see myself with anybody who takes things too seriously or can't have a decent laugh about himself. — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Comedy is an indoors thing, so I take every opportunity to go outside. A lot of that involves finding places that are… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I try to play the stiff, as much as I can, and play it dry, which is sometimes hard for me. My… — John Cho Copy Share Image
We shot 'CBGB' in Savannah, and then I took another project there afterwards called 'Killing Winston Jones.' It's a dark comedy with… — Joel David Moore Copy Share Image
While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from… — Marie Taylor Collins Swabey Copy Share Image
I don't separate Robert DeNiro's comedy from the serious stuff. The one thing I realize working with him in all of his… — Alessandro Nivola Copy Share Image
Everything will be seen on your computer or BlackBerry or whatever devices we will be seeing in the future. Comedians will put… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
I want to get the joke to work without having to put any words or to say anything. I just want the… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
You need to laugh more. Life is filled with too many problems, to not laugh every day… We need to have a… — Ysabella Brave Copy Share Image
There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
“A lot of people don’t get my humor. My mom calls it dry humor. I think that means “not funny,” but it… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
I didn't go up in a comedy club until I was in my late teens, because I didn't know where to get… — Taylor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Here's a suggestion for a new animal, if some new ones get created or evolve: something that stings you, then laughs at… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
My favorite comedy is self-effacing, where the person doing the joke is the butt of it. That's always been the stuff I've… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
It only works because we still amuse each other. After we have been working with other people, it is so refreshing to… — Adrian Edmondson Copy Share Image
“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world… — Lynda Williams Copy Share Image
For making a good comedy film, you need a good writer whose craft can be understood through the time that he takes… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
That moment when you tell a joke but no one hears you except one person who repeats it louder and makes everyone… — The Blog That Describe Your Life Copy Share Image
“how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy.… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
“If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Part of my humor is the fact that I love coming out of left field. I don't want people to expect what… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Laughter of a person doesn't mean that they have an absence of problems and sorrow. But it means that the person has… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment. — Kristin Hunter Copy Share Image
I've never disguised the fact that I wasn't happy in teaching. But the reason was that I wanted to do comedy. I… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
I love to make people laugh and having fun doing things like playing games and doing activities as well. — Jonita Gandhi Copy Share Image
Comedians have to challenge the power. Comedians should be dangerous and devastating - and funny. That's the hardest part. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Do not hurt her heart with pain rather hurt her tummy with laughter because that's the only pain she can proudly call… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
