Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money… — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to… — Cecily Strong Copy Share Image
I love comedy. There's just something so great about making people laugh. And for me, too, whenever I laugh, it just makes… — Stefanie Scott Copy Share Image
Funny are those who choose to be clowns and not monsters when dozen others are trying hard to be heroes. — Massara Ahmad Copy Share Image
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can… — Betty White Copy Share Image
So many stars who have shows are intimidated by having people around them be funnier than them. It's always the unsuccessful ones.… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a comedian, even when I was a little kid. I had a funny father who was in… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If a comedian tells a joke that you find funny, you laugh. If he tells a joke you do not find funny,… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Standup really is a young man's game, a single young man's game. Even when I was younger, when I wasn't single, it… — Kevin Nealon Copy Share Image
Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
“Tears streamed down my face. I was so happy I wanted to shout it from the rooftop. But at the same time… — Alan Partridge Copy Share Image
“If one’s friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have done much more dramatic work than comedic work, but I think comedy is harder than drama in a way. I… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or… — Emma Tennant Copy Share Image
Your mission is to have fun and laugh, so why should you suffer if later on you will have to leave this… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back.… — Caitlin Rose Copy Share Image
As the funny guy, the funny frat bro, any time I try out for that role, I get it. Like, I walk… — Logan Paul Copy Share Image
I want to go to Australia so bad, do comedy there, and see the people there. It's a great country. I have… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
“I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive...” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.” — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as… — Leonard Maltin Copy Share Image
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I worked in accounting for two and a half years, realized that wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams. — Matt Besser Copy Share Image
If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already. — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
If all you had to be was a comedian to be a good football player. Bob Hope would be great. But you… — Cris Collinsworth Copy Share Image
Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she… — William James Copy Share Image
People who have theater or sketch-comedy backgrounds seem to be more, you know, our speed. Like Amy Poehler and Will Arnett -… — Megan Mullally Copy Share Image
“Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
