In terms of comedy, I never did five-minute sets or clubs or anything. I just started doing shows. Coming from that theater… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I… — Jamie Kennedy Copy Share Image
Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm almost always trying to be funny, even when I'm on my own. I think it's the desire to channel my anger… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Years of doing comedy and doing improv comedy taught me so many things about pacing, timing, stamina, how to manage physicality -… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic… — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
For myself, the way that I learned comedy was doing it live for four years, and only after doing sketch for four… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I dare say that if most comedians today, the gifted ones, were to sit down and write, they'd learn more about their… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
“I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The kind of über-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, "Eh,… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie… — Sophie Marceau Copy Share Image
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy. — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her… — Padma Venkatraman Copy Share Image
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all. — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
They Say Laughter Is The Best Medicine, But If You're Laughing For No Particular Reason, You Need Medicine... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise… — Josie Long Copy Share Image
We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying. — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Laughter is the only thing that will keep you sane. In this world, there's crying more and more everyday. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective. People like to laugh, and they especially like… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
There is nothing more profoundly serious than real comedy, which is an affirmation of human communion, redemption and grace. — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
I have the comedic chops and intelligence to raise points and discuss both sides of whatever is on our mind as a… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
A man who fails is funny... if my sketches teach anything, it is that, for the male, sex is a snare and… — Benny Hill Copy Share Image
“We may not speak the same language, but laughter speaks for us. It’s a bridge built in an instant across cultures, across… — Pamela Cox Copy Share Image
Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make… — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
Hawley may be a clown, but he's clever, too. He knows White men feel they're facing a crisis, and he plans to… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
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