Comedy Quotes · Page 455

Compared with what's happening in, say, Darfur or South Ossetia, finding an audience for your comedy show is not that significant.

— Paul Whitehouse

It's hard to complain when you say, 'We're gonna go to the clip where Helen Hunt and Will Ferrell are on 'Saturday…

— Isaac Hanson

It's difficult to differentiate between a story that's humorous and clever and one that actually makes people laugh out loud.

— Mick Foley

I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical…

— Dick Cavett

The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take…

— Bill Hicks

You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off…

— Vanessa Bayer

I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of…

— Lindsay Wagner

I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror.…

— Rain

If people want to see something, I am more than happy to do it. Then I know everybody likes comedy. I do…

— Arshad Warsi

Humour and high seriousness... Perfect bedfellows, I think. Though I usually phrase it in terms of comedy and darkness. Comedy without darkness…

— Mark Haddon

I see myself touring internationally - everywhere, every theater, every arena - and putting out stand-up comedy specials until I can't even…

— Jermaine Fowler

“I'd worked out that social success is often built on pretending just a little. Popular people sometimes have to laugh at things…

— Gail Honeyman

Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more…

— Semir Zeki

All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't…

— Jennifer Coolidge

I was looking to do a comedy and found a group of guys that were really supportive of my interests in it,…

— Seth Rogen

I did a few mainstream clubs in Birmingham when I started out. Racist comedy was absolutely the norm. Every act was doing…

— Frank Skinner

If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us…

— Robert Patrick

In my more pompous moments I like to think of myself as a writer rather than a humorist, but I suppose that's…

— S. J. Perelman

My philosophy in life is just to laugh as much as possible through the good and the bad - to laugh at…

— John Pinette

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's…

— Alice Lowe

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes…

— Rob Huebel

Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.

— Demetri Martin

It's hard when you're not a native speaker, because everyone's laughing, and you're like, 'What was that? Can you tell me again?'

— Sibel Kekilli

One of the many reasons why I love stand-up so much is when you're performing, you get instant feedback. You know if…

— Chris Hardwick

I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold…

— Veronica Roth

Laughter brings you to reality as it is. The world is a play of God, a cosmic joke. And unless you understand…

— Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Self-deprecating humour is a common form of comedy and it helps get the audience on side because you're being vulnerable.

— Alex Brooker

I don't have to fear that if I do more comedy I'm not going to get to do everything I want. I'll…

— Ari Graynor

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

— Louis C. K

Its consistency of what comedy can do and what comedy can be.Growing up with that show [The Simpsons] shaped my worldview.

— Eric Andre

Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side…

— Peter Ustinov

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate…

— George Gissing

Everyone likes laughing, everyone likes feeling that short feeling of not thinking about anything; 'I'm just scrolling, I'm just having a look.'

— Harris Dickinson

As an actor, when you're doing comedies, you're around fantastic, funny people and you hopefully have a really good time doing it.

— Ari Graynor

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the…

— Boris Sidis

I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I…

— Miranda July

“precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody…

— A Gentlemen

Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.

— Jon Lovett

When our bed is made, it's covered in 40 pillows-like we're stockpiling ammo for the global pillow fight.

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.

— Larry Wilmore