Comedy Quotes · Page 425

Hard comedy goes for the fences. It's also what you might call take-a-risk comedy because if you don't hit a home run,…

— Bob Crane

My parents are very practical people and they told me, 'If this comedy thing is an actual career and a job that…

— Ayo Edebiri

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some…

— Doug Stanhope

That's the great test: if you're going to be a great comic writer, not a humorist, you've got to take it into…

— Howard Jacobson

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it…

— Chris Hardwick

Matt LeBlanc thinks his own jokes are funny which is problematic when you're driving along - he expects you to laugh and…

— Chris Harris

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here…

— Jim Carrey

I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space…

— Meryl Streep

It seems a strange thing, but once I was able to get past that kind of self-image problem, I was able to…

— Amy Poehler

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics…

— Anonymous

I think funny comes from tragedy and time. And I think that's where I get it. I'm able to take things that…

— Bobby Bones

But nowadays everybody's a comedian, even the weather girls and continuity announcers. We laugh at everything. Not intelligently anymore, not with sudden…

— Douglas Adams

My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts,…

— Larry Wilmore

“Percy, you are dismissed from my service." "Me? Why, my lord?" "Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a…

— Richard Curtis

I was so thankful that I got to go back to comedy and I felt bad that I had abandoned something that…

— Sandra Bullock

Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an…

— Bob Saget

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture…

— Garry Winogrand

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think…

— Sally Ride

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It…

— Daphne du Maurier

Joke stealing is a big deal to me, but I mean, I'm not going to investigate it if it doesn't effect me…

— Greg Giraldo

I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like…

— Gene Wilder

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

— Michael Drayton

What I think is funny is when people, despite tragic situations, are still hopeful, still trying. It's sweet and sad - and,…

— Casey Wilson

Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without…

— Justin Simien

If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny…

— Michael McIntyre

I have little comedy notebooks, and I also have notes in my phone, and I'll write on my laptop for longer stories.

— Michelle Buteau

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's…

— Alexei Sayle

And it really pisses Peter and Micky off when I get onto one of those tangents where I start to do humor.

— Davy Jones

I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy.…

— Joan Rivers

I'm an eclectic and avid filmgoer. I try to see everything from romantic comedies to blockbusters to art house films, world cinema…

— Pamela Yates

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes…

— Manohla Dargis

Sometimes, you just get in this mentality of 'Fuck you, this is funny.' If you don't think so, you're the asshole.

— Seth Rogen

Me being silly, funny and goofy isn't immaturity, It's the way I express myself. I know when & how to stop at…

— Anonymous

I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I…

— Richard Pryor

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian.…

— James Cromwell

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

— Paul Lynde

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying…

— Joe Rogan

I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why…

— Adrian Edmondson

I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'

— Devon Bostick

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's…

— Neal Brennan