My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith. — Robert Byron Copy Share Image
I'm a shithead douche with no credentials. I just say I do so people watch my show and believe the shit I… — Dr Phil Copy Share Image
Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
'Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies' is a comedy. It was fun. You just don't take it serious. You just go there, get your… — Roddy Piper Copy Share Image
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually… — David Ives Copy Share Image
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
There's a lot of comic book inspiration and stuff I do that people probably won't recognize. I grew up in the '70s,… — Genndy Tartakovsky Copy Share Image
I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever… — James Corden Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice you're talking… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
With 'J', at a deep base level, there is still some comedy, but that masculinist voice that had driven so many of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
My favorite dark comedy, which is also one of my favorite films of all time, is 'After Hours.' I've seen 'After Hours'… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“If your dick has more frequent flyer miles than you do, you’re not a lover—you’re a disease with a passport.” — Brad Deep Copy Share Image
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I think it's the same as comedy. They're just highly entertaining. They take you on a ride. They tap into your base… — Elizabeth Banks Copy Share Image
Really, laughing is such a strange reaction to something. The idea of it is so bizarre, so instinctual, and kind of magical. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
“It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.” — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Laughter is the buildup of tension in your body. You need it to blow up the balloon you're popping with your punchline. — Tony Hinchcliffe Copy Share Image
I'm at my best when I'm at my funniest and most observational comedy is topical. But anything forced, it stings or reads… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Other comedians have more flexibility and more mental freedom. They can be loose with what they have written. — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
When someone's an actor and you're an actor, you meet them and you feel like you know them. We're in the same… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
As much effort it takes in nailing great comic timing, it takes the same effort to ace any dance step or a… — Tahir Raj Bhasin Copy Share Image
Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“if you keep looking for what’s wrong you might just miss the very thing that’s right. I want it to be about… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“And how could he know the character of the country? By finding out the sense of humor of the country. For if… — Rebbe Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
The reason most comedies don't win awards is that the filmmakers put the comedy first. This means you have to create a… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is… — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
It so fascinates me how we always laugh when somebody falls on a banana peel, how comedy and injury are often so… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.” — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over… — Thomas De Witt Talmage Copy Share Image
In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death… — Samantha Bee Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to have fun and always wanted to have, I think attention, in a way, where I'm making someone laugh. — Megan Stalter Copy Share Image
I like to think that even with some of the more intense ones sometimes there is humour in there, you try to… — Ray Liotta Copy Share Image
