That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't really watch dramas. I prefer watching comedy. Also, when you're in comedy, watching 'Community' or 'Larry Sanders' feels like research,… — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and… — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
That moment when you're talking to yourself and you start laughing because you're just so freaking funny! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack. — Ilana Glazer Copy Share Image
Not necessarily in the beginning, thinking I would have a career in comedy, but I was always interested in making people laugh. — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
“The problem is you make the tricks look good. You are a brilliant acrobat, and a witty comedian. You are skillful. People… — Kelli Swofford Nielsen Copy Share Image
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought… — Esther Williams Copy Share Image
“the people who are best at telling jokes tend to have more health problems than the people laughing at them. A study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's a strategy really so much as, like I learned doing standup and had to learn fast, you… — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to people who don't know who they are, because I just think that's where comedy lives, in someone with an… — Jamie Demetriou Copy Share Image
I have a million funny ideas for sketches, but I don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars shooting them. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Guys play characters that won't grow up and something catastrophic happens and they have to grow up to save the day -… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not. — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Raju Gadu' is a situational comedy where I play a fun and bubbly character. She's a proper Andhra girl who's modern but… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
More and more, I find that I love doing comedies; that instant gratification that you get on stage when they laugh at… — Taylor Louderman Copy Share Image
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when theyre not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when theyre not so bad. — Kemis Khan Copy Share Image
Especially in these times of austerity and the world feels like it's falling apart, it's good for people to have a laugh. — Kris Marshall Copy Share Image
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
People are either funny or they're not, and you can't teach that - but you can teach people to work together to… — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present;… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
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