I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The best advice I could give someone trying to get into the comedy field is to take advantage of every opportunity you… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Certain shows, when it's all comedy, it's like when you eat something that's too sweet and it just tastes gross. You need… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for… — Burt Ward Copy Share Image
A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But… — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Woody Allen's 'The Complete Prose' - It's just the best selection of comic writing by one author. You know it's good comedy… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
“Cameron firmly believed if you couldn’t laugh at yourself, you weren’t allowed to laugh at anyone else either.” — Marie Force Copy Share Image
Bought a pair of boots the other day, and they was some silicone gel in there. Big red letters said, "Do not… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
For every stand-up comedian, Just for Laughs is our Super Bowl. Every comic in the world goes to Just for Laughs in… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction.… — Christine Vachon Copy Share Image
Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition of teen comedies where the kids are getting drunk on beer and whatever else, so smoking a joint… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The thing that bubbles up the most when I'm around other people is that I feel a joy of being alive. But… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
Sarah Silverman. She's the reason I do comedy. Her DNC speech was my favorite thing I ever heard. Sitting down with her… — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
Everyone says comedy is really hard, but with 'The Office' the naturalism was everything so it didn't feel like doing comedy; it… — Ralph Ineson Copy Share Image
If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies. — Dreama Walker Copy Share Image
Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die… — Dustin Diamond Copy Share Image
Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
A lot of comedies, I think, make the wrong choice of having the straight man being this bland emotional conduit for the… — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Humor is not only fun but healthy too! Heart attack is shown to be less likely to happen for people who have… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before. — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I definitely talk about my love of metal to audiences, and I sort of realized it was always natural and never, 'Well,… — Brian Posehn Copy Share Image
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
The actress (Heidi Swedberg) is this wonderful girl, and ... I love her! i couldn't figure out how to play off of… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Eddie [Murphy] is an icon. He's one of the reason why I started doing comedy in the beginning. He opened a lot… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
If you look there is humor in every situation like your Aunt eating up all the food at the funeral or the… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
“Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Creating jokes, sometimes it's the experience of life and it's also practice and most of the time writers' help me. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
As a comedy nerd, I get a lot out of the podcast because I'm genuinely interested in the people I'm talking to. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I just realized at a certain point that no matter how much writing I did, I'm still a gym rat for comedy… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
The laughs are honestly bigger, ... They are the kind of unexpected belly laughs you get with your friends during conversation. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions. — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
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