A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult… — John Allen Fraser Copy Share Image
When you do a good comedy show, you have to understand that if you don't have drama or sad moments, then the… — Jaime Camil Copy Share Image
You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
“We broke into laughter—the kind that’s your only recourse when you feel like curling up in a fetal position and whimpering like… — M.A. George Copy Share Image
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing… — Elizabeth Meriwether Copy Share Image
When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst. — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
When I was governor, if I told a joke in front of the press - I learned. I would go, "That was… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat… — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“is there any I could get a glass of water?" [waiter]There is no way... I toss and turn many a night trying… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word,… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
It's so fun because Jason [Mantzoukas]'s one of the smartest people I've met in comedy. So unbelievably fast comedically - so he's… — Jackie Schaffer Copy Share Image
There is no difference between alternative and traditional club comedy. People think there's a difference, but I don't think so. It's like… — Brent Weinbach Copy Share Image
When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I don't know what I'd do if I was making a romantic comedy; I wouldn't feel like I was earning my $100… — Danielle Harris Copy Share Image
You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
“It was a great laugh - that kind where you can actually hear the 'ha-ha-ha's' if you listen closely enough.” — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
I have a hard time describing myself as a standup comedian because I don't feel like I'm doing stand up jokes more… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
People seem to want to give 'Flowers' a comedy or a comedy-drama label. I suppose it's closer to comedy-drama, but it feels… — Sophia Di Martino Copy Share Image
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
PPL TALK LET THEM TALK PPL LIE LET THEM LIE THEY THINK ITS FUNNY LET THEM LAUGH BECAUSE WHILE THEYRE LAUGHING THEY… — Alyssa Tillmon Copy Share Image
I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love. — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I feel both happy and sad in my life... Life is neither comedy nor tragedy. And so I just wanted to work… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My goal is really to just make people laugh with integrity, like, with something that I still find funny. — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
I really just believe in good storytelling, and we shouldn't have to sacrifice that just because we're a comedy. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I'd like a bit of a crack at some kind of anarchic comedy, but whether or not I'm skillful enough at it… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
I hope I am pigeonholed with comedy. I'm really not interested in writing the darker stuff, the emotional stuff. — Jane Espenson Copy Share Image
“Are they supposed to cry so much and giggle every second when they're not crying? They never quit finding something so funny… — Mary Connealy Copy Share Image
![“It has become cliché to say I laughed until I cried, but when I'm done reading one of [Kupperman's] underground comics my shirt is literally soaking wet. This guy may have one of the best comedy brains on the planet right now.” quote by Conan O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a43/conan-o-brien-540_best-comedy_it-has-become-clich-to-say-i-laughed-unt_2561145.jpg)
![“is there any I could get a glass of water?" [waiter]There is no way... I toss and turn many a night trying to think up some way some how I could get glasses of water to costomers but I keep coming up empty… Legend has it there was a waiter here many years ago... who had figured out a way to do…” quote by Brian Regan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/brian-regan-3918_comedy_is-there-any-i-could-get-a-glass-of-wate_3196051.jpg)
![“It's so fun because Jason [Mantzoukas]'s one of the smartest people I've met in comedy. So unbelievably fast comedically - so he's quick with whatever, but it's fun to watch someone be so quick and so stupid simultaneously.” quote by Jackie Schaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e1/jackie-schaffer-56221_comedy_it-s-so-fun-because-jason-mantzoukas-s-o_2919975.jpg)
