I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make… — Bobby Darin Copy Share Image
“The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they’d backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
It always is easier to have someone listen to you if you disarm them with the laughter first. It seems like a… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to be a dramatic. Comedy comes more naturally to me. I can do it with more facility. So I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other:… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain. — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances,… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
At the beggining of my career, for me the comedy circuit was a combination of desperation and the fact that it was… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and… — Cameron Crowe Copy Share Image
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast.… — Hari Kondabolu Copy Share Image
'Friends' was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education… — Matt LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“The strongest should come first in comedy because once a character is really established as funny everything he does is funny.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Bad improv happens with people who are inexperienced with each other and don't know the craft that well. But bad stand-up is… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
'Namastey London' is my favourite Bollywood film, it is a complete pack - it has entertainment, drama, emotion and comedy. — Ammy Virk Copy Share Image
I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the… — Jason Priestley Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian - you've got to know your boundaries - but I think I could definitely do a comedic film… — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
“As W.H. Auden pointed out, the Reaper takes the rolling in money, the screamingly funny, and those who are very well hung.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
An academic is what I would have been if I hadn't been successful as a comedian. I've never had a proper job. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
I'm not casting judgement...i'm just telling how I see it, mow when 5 people clamim to be your babydaddy…you're a hoe. — DL Hughley Copy Share Image
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson. — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a… — Seth Meyers Copy Share Image
All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different… — Mackenzie Crook Copy Share Image
I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I was always given the comedy role, even in the ballet. I was the one who fell off her points, you know?… — June Whitfield Copy Share Image
You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked… — Paul Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Not everything's funny, Mother." "No," said Leola, "so I guess when you can laugh,, it's all the sweeter.” — Lorna Landvik Copy Share Image
The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you… — Randy Rainbow Copy Share Image
Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the… — Oliver Herford Copy Share Image
I would like to explore comedy, I want to do more theatre, and I definitely want a future in film. I love… — Jessica Raine Copy Share Image
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
