Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art… — Travis Nichols Copy Share Image
Everyone knows the feeling where you're in the pub and you make your mates laugh. It's awesome, you feel like you rock.… — Ellie Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely… — Stephen Root Copy Share Image
Some people don't seem to be able to distinguish between humour and what you really feel. They forget that there's a difference… — Limmy Copy Share Image
Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness. — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
The routines of any ethnic comic - Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example - would not work if they were performed… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way around. God… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Ash nodded. “Look for Oberon or Mab,” he said grimly, scanning the battlefield. “They’ll likely be on opposite sides of the river.… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and Obama had the… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“When my mother passed away several years ago—well, wait a minute. Actually, she didn’t ‘pass away.’ She died. Something about that verb,… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
First of all, the first cut of the movie was like three and a half hours and I walked away going, 'Wow,… — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
You're over there in the corner either thinking about the dead dog or whatever, you're bringing up your personal life and you… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take… — Clement Attlee Copy Share Image
“Wokeism's impact on free speech becomes pronounced when it leads to the cancellation of individuals expressing opinions, even through the medium of… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance. — Anthony McCarten Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted… — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It's so clear cut with a comedian - you have that reflex action, whereby you laugh or you don't. And so you… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I am edgy, raw, offensive, vulgar, untruthful, but intelligent. My jokes are always realistic. I do not make fun of children or… — Vir Das Copy Share Image
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
Humour is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought - rather it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
“It’s funny how when it’s somebody else telling the story it’s easy to see that He can’t take a joke is just… — Melissa DeCarlo Copy Share Image
People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart. — Howard Simons Copy Share Image
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange]… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In reality, I laugh a lot. In fact, if someone cries in front of me, I cant help myself and I often… — Rashami Desai Copy Share Image
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. — Dana Fox Copy Share Image
I believe in putting out positivity into the world and so comedy is a job where you feel like you're making people… — Karan Soni Copy Share Image
“He thought about the difference between good times and bad times, and how funny it was that he could not state the… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
In other big cities, I can play a series of sold-out one-nighters at various comedy clubs, but Detroit's the only place in… — Soupy Sales Copy Share Image
When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been… — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own,… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I feel like everything comes into your life for a reason. With 'Awake,' I got to do a drama, and with 'Anger… — Daniela Bobadilla Copy Share Image
I make dramedies, but 'Tangerine' really has a lot of comedy, and I saw that it had a great effect - it… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
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