Comedy Quotes · Page 411

I think when someone who's known for doing drama does a comedy but just tries to be funny, that's a mistake.

— Steve Carell

I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in…

— Adam McKay

Nobody gets into comedy because they feel like they're cool and funny. If they do, they're megalomaniacs.

— Noel Wells

“We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on…

— Karen Russell

Real comedy can't be learned; it comes from a need for justice. The best who stand up, stand up for something.

— Elayne Boosler

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

— George Orwell

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

— Jordan Peele

People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those?…

— Emma Stone

Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work.…

— Ted Alexandro

I'm hugely negative, so if a joke doesn't land it takes me a long time to get over it. If something doesn't…

— Romesh Ranganathan

Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the…

— Joe Meno

“As regards structure, comedy has come a long way since Shakespeare, who in his festive conclusions could pair off any old shit…

— Martin Amis

I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I…

— Will Ferrell

I was writing stand up comedy for TV for around 5 years and just wanted to attempt it myself. Vir Das started…

— Varun Grover

I think those that are holier-than-thou don't make jokes. They take themselves too seriously and Peeta doesn't take himself too seriously. This…

— Josh Hutcherson

I love everything. I don't see myself doing a really serious drama in the next five to ten years. I don't feel…

— Tommy Wirkola

Sometimes I think I'm funny. But then sometimes I see myself, and I think, 'There's somebody trying to be funny.'

— Paul Rudd

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

— James Gunn

“Tragedy and comedy involve an audience, so they must give--sharing themselves to elicit tears and laughter. Melodrama is not such a strategist.…

— Yiyun Li

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

— Jordan Klepper

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all…

— Louis C. K

When I did 'Nikki and Sara Live,' I think a lot of the comedy got lost because we were always so worried…

— Nikki Glaser

When an audience is laughing, that's opening their souls somehow, and when you have an audience with an open soul, it's much…

— Fatih Ak?n

I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing…

— Rachael Harris

“...big, strapping macho guys were like liquid diets--they were great for emergencies, but she wouldn't want to be on one all the…

— Stephanie Bond

I want to stretch myself. Another reason why I'm so fortunate is that this is a drama and I've been brought up…

— Steven Yeun

I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances…

— Erica Durance

Appropriately used humor can shine light on the truth, disarm difficult behavior, and show that you have superior composure.

— Senoraroy

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

— Alan Alda

I think my sense of humor is really dark and super twisted and stuff like that. It's like, "Is this a funny…

— Kanye West

As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after all, so…

— Anonymous

Some guys may play around and say a couple of things, but if I say it, I mean it. I may laugh,…

— Deontay Wilder

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm…

— Mary Roach

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of…

— Stacy Keach

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best…

— Lewis Carroll

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny…

— Greg Kinnear

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey…

— Nikolai Gogol

I'd like to do more comedy, but i think my forte is still in the heavy. I'd love to do a comic…

— Lee Van Cleef

With humor you have so many options with topics and length, I mean I can write humor essays in books now and…

— Dave Barry