Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing.… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
People love authenticity in comedy and, coming from a region, you get a very strong sense of place. They can place you… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I… — Zach Woodlee Copy Share Image
The best types of laughter: 1) Laughing so hard it becomes silent. 2) You feel a six pack coming on. 3) Tears… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donald Trump announced today he is running for president of the United States. Traditionally that means six more weeks of comedy. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I learned that you can be powerful and funny at the same time, and you don't have to be liked. I think… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
My point of view comes more from the literature I've read and the comedy of the era. When I was a kid,… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
Nothing's true that I say, because I don't really want to say anything. I don't think my life's that cool, and I… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show,… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
There's no better sight than when I look out from the speaker's rostrum and see a group of Republicans and Democrats who… — Sara Gideon Copy Share Image
I like to challenge myself not to be negative, because it's easy to take comedy to a negative place and criticize the… — Kyle Kinane Copy Share Image
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love seeing somebody act real earnest and serious, like Jackie Gleason. He makes me laugh because he reflects back to me… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“So it turns out I wasn't the only Jew at the rally. There were two and a half more. Not protesting against… — John Safran Copy Share Image
I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig!… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
You can make people laugh, but having them really want to hear what you have to say, that takes trust and time. — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
It's definitely easier for a woman to do a romantic comedy than a war movie. It's assumed a woman doesn't have a… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
“I’ll steal bodies, not to be Corporal Corpse, but to have access to a never-ending supply of laughter still left over in… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Why does Louis CK get named Comedy Person of the Year? I should be named Comedy Person of the Year just so… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
I could see how people get addicted to animation, and I understand why it's so great for comedy. You can do whatever… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I do some very high energy comedy, vaudeville, music hall stuff, and people who've seen my work on camera, on TV and… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“You shoot him in this car and we'll be screwed so hard, we'll be walking funny for the rest of our lives.” — Michelle Elaine Lowe Copy Share Image
I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious.… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
It's easy to say standup for yourself. The problem is if you don't feel like you're physically capable of handling the repercussions… — Eve Torres Copy Share Image
What I really like about stand-up is there's 100 people in a room, and you can just feel the pulse. It's very human. — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't… — Wayne Brady Copy Share Image
