I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to… — Marcia Cross Copy Share Image
I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone. — Abe Burrows Copy Share Image
I really used to like TVMaxwell, which is a classic, amazing, super-underrated comedy channel. And Cyndago was great. — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
“There was no way to have a civilized conversation with that guy. It's like he was raised by giraffes or something.” — H.M. Ward Copy Share Image
I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
If I am totally honest, I would have to say that ''Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that… — Cedric the Entertainer Copy Share Image
I wasn't one of those kids who stole Richard Pryor records. I wasn't a comedy-nerd kid. I had no concept of stand-up.… — Whitney Cummings Copy Share Image
“As we drove back to Enugu, I laughed loudly,above Fela's stringent singing. I laughed because Nsukka's untarred roads coat cars with dust… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Working with David Gordon Green, and Jonah Hill, and Michael Cera, and Drew Barrymore, and all of those people - those are… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the… — Darren Boyd Copy Share Image
There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Corporate alchemy isn’t just dark magic; it’s a tragic comedy, a satire as I imagine being written by Kafka on a bad… — Rove Monteux Copy Share Image
I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff. — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
Man, Amy Ryan. I have geeked out so hard for her - to her face! There aren't a lot of people that… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I think that's very important, that a friend makes you laugh, and you're just giddy around them all the time. — Lana Condor Copy Share Image
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I’d be standing… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Now I put up something, and I have to think, 'Oh, there are millions of people watching, and some of them could… — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything. — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
There's nothing more dramatic than the comedy I've done. Because the comedy I've done is to get to the audience, get them… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to… — Horace Copy Share Image
“To me, the best humor is indeed the ability to laugh at one's self. So I give myself endless opportunities to do… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations. — John Wells Copy Share Image
Don't take life too seriously & always find time to laugh cuz laughter not only add years to your life, but adds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that… — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
I am feeling like I have completed the circle. I started with serious roles, done a grey shaded role, did fatherly roles… — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
I think for any comedian to come and get big laughs from a really tough, discerning, comedy-literate audience, it is the biggest… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
Standup is tough; if you are going through a hard period in your life, it is very hard to get up in… — Doc Brown Copy Share Image
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Everyone was doing alternative comedy. I thought I'd distinguish myself by just telling jokes, with differing degrees of success. — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
