One of the first jokes I wrote was this nail salon bit that ended up blowing up on YouTube. That's kind of… — Anjelah Johnson Copy Share Image
I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Never shave your eyebrows and paint them back exactly were they where, thats absurd in nomarl terms, please women just stop — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My comedy is a nuclear bomb inside my mind. It's a weapon that's never been tested. It just blows up and flattens… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I'm not mad keen on comedy that points the finger at people and ridicules them. I don't find that very funny. I… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick… — Kyle Gallner Copy Share Image
I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I was even in a comedy group for a while. It's so different. It's so completely different. The idea of going to… — Elizabeth Mitchell Copy Share Image
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Many, many years ago before I got into comedy, I applied to be a spy for MI5. I got down to the… — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
I had my own insecurities, which a lot of my comedy would come from, about not being able to live up to… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
“Gordon W. Allport’s book, The Individual and His Religion: “The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to… — Shawn Wayans Copy Share Image
Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language...… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh. — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“And that’s how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy.… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Standup was so many men, and so many older men, and that was my peer group for a few years... which just… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy.… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I decided to do a comedy. It's a good mind-set to go into work and be happy every day instead of being… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves. — Jon Hurwitz Copy Share Image
Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives… — Pat Paulsen Copy Share Image
You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“I regularly comment on my desire to exploit my admirers or to kill babies and cute animals, and I don't even need… — M. E. Thomas Copy Share Image
“I laughed. ‘It’s a cellar Phil, calling it your recording studio does not make that sentence any less creepy.” — Alison Davis Copy Share Image
America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Compared to the other work I've done on TV, 'Breaking Bad' was funny. In the beginning, I described it as a dark… — Betsy Brandt Copy Share Image
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration. — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
“No, it's the best time for jokes,' said Olivia. She forced a weak smile. 'Jokes remind us that we're alive. And that… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
