You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody. — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
It's just a lovely way to do comedy, where you have the freedom to try stuff, but then you also have a… — Natasia Demetriou Copy Share Image
Don't ever show pictures or post things just to make anyone jealous coz One day if they will have the last laugh… — Raveen Copy Share Image
I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
I wish I could blame my failure on my integrity & refusal to play bullshit games. But the truth is I just… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
That's what people forget about, is that when things are very, very powerful in a sad way, they have that possibility of… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
What I like about stand-up is, it's truthful. I'm not up there trying to get laid or look cool. I'm up there… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes… — Rose Matafeo Copy Share Image
I think the writers give us different people to work with, different situation scenarios to be in and there's always that fun… — Hayden Panettiere Copy Share Image
“I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
How do you deal with it?" Kami asked Jared. "The laughing at nothing and occasionally stopping dead in your tracks." "I have… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't… — Catherine Tate Copy Share Image
Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
When I step back from any moment of crisis that I've ever had, I'm always struck by how humor and tragedy can… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Who said that the pain always hurt??? I'l always love the pain in my stomach when my friends make me laugh so… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.” — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break… — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
The number one job for me is to make people laugh. If I can also make people think, then that's a cool… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
It seemed fun to play a villain on stage and I wanted my jokes to be so good that I could just… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles,… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
I did work in a bakery for one day. But the boss went off and when he came back I was lying… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I'm a big boy, but I can get jiggy with it. Ladies, I will go to dance clubs, and I will tear… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
I love comedy. I love the absurdity of it. I love the kind of intelligence that's required to be dumb in comedy. — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm… — John Landis Copy Share Image
I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit… — Jack Benny Copy Share Image
Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you;… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
I agree that someone falling down is really funny, and I can go on YouTube and watch people falling. It makes me… — Nathan Fielder Copy Share Image
There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of… — Hannah Gadsby Copy Share Image
We got so much food in America we're allergic to food. Allergic to food! Hungry people ain't allergic to shit. You think… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did. — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
