What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
One thing helps the other. My stand-up helps my writing; my writing helps my stand-up; my stand-up helps my acting. They're all… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
I was inspired by comedy channels. I loved that they got to do sketches and could be funny and crude and make… — Eva Gutowski Copy Share Image
Comedy fans are the best fans. They embrace and support you doing low-budget work and will follow you to the end of… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing.… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Stand-up on the telly is one thing, but seeing it live is something else. There are brilliant comedians playing to rooms above… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all… — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Comedy is actually very hard. It's hard to choose those moments and know when you can really push it, and know when… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
Sometimes, comedy feels like the kid brother of drama, trying to get attention by being the class jokester. But it's actually really… — Christopher Miller Copy Share Image
I have no idea how it got so big. I was just trying to find something to do while I was living… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
“Another case for the dumbness of reading, however, is that books do not contain answers, but rather pose more questions. And asking… — Dan Wilbur Copy Share Image
I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get… — Melissa Joan Hart Copy Share Image
Comedy is good at analysing and dealing with evil because it doesn't present it as evil but a collection of banalities. — David Farr Copy Share Image
“[T]he definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.” — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
I have issues with food and weight and I can make that funny. The audience loves it. I have fun with it. — John Pinette Copy Share Image
I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad… — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image
There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With… — Nikki Cox Copy Share Image
Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
'Playing House' works because we're being supremely honest to what we think is funny and not what we think other people think… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero… — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer.… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I just love that part of comedy, where you see somebody's jokes develop. They try something new to see what works, and… — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
“sometimes my laugh in front of others becomes unnaturally loud, like something in my brain tripped over a volume cord” — Megan Boyle Copy Share Image
Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about… — Keenen Ivory Wayans Copy Share Image
We always say in the Obama world, in the toughest times, you can laugh or you can cry, so you might as… — Daniel Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of French comedy. The French play comedy in a slightly different way than we do: they play it… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
I've always felt, and I think I've been pigeonholed by the media, as being a very separate voice to the rest of… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
With stand-up, it's really easy to get complacent and do the same jokes over and over because you know they work. You… — Michelle Buteau Copy Share Image
We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The interesting trick of comedy, in a lot of ways, is to have both the comedy and the grounding of the real… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“There's no good reason to change a Neil Simon line. The day that I'm funnier than Neil Simon, Hell will be a… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
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