Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that,… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
'The Dictator' - well, that was just a comedy, and I suppose the morality was incidental. It was just something to try… — Adeel Akhtar Copy Share Image
A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh,… — Alonzo Bodden Copy Share Image
I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I was drafted and went to Korea where I had an opportunity to create a production team that did dramatic and comedy… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
I have wanted to expand not only my comedy but also build a world with the many talented comedians I know. — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people… — Andy Daly Copy Share Image
I don't personally feel comfortable performing in a comedy club, mainly because as an audience member, I've never enjoyed that experience. It… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
Humor gives presidents the chance to be seen as warm, relaxed persons. Humor reaches out and puts its arm around the listener… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I believe comedy should be free to go anywhere. I believe that there is tasteful and untasteful, I think they're very close… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
Women have always been funny. I got asked so many times in interviews when I was younger, 'Can women be funny?' And… — Rebecca Front Copy Share Image
“Mankind is immortal in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature but by virtue of man's subjection to… — Rose A. Zimbardo Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
Life is supposed to be fun. It's not a job or occupation. We're here only once and we should have a bit… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Timing and pace are important in any film, whether it be comedy or drama. And how better to learn the fundamentals of… — Charles Walters Copy Share Image
The best advice I was probably given and the best advice I could give someone who is trying to get into the… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
SNL' and 'Half-Baked' came and certainly brought me a bigger audience. But I lost the perspective of being a real good comedian. — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I wasn't the crazy kid bouncing off the walls, I would just sit back a make comments and I made people laugh. — Tom Segura Copy Share Image
I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and… — Bob Odenkirk Copy Share Image
Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
A sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the unbearable. — Moshe Waldoks Copy Share Image
I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect… — Amy Hoggart Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
No matter what the situation is - even if it's something that's not overly funny - people in Derry can always find… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
“I should like to knock their silly heads together. What is the sense of laughing all the time? They are not saying… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you see our films like 'Coolie No 1,' 'Hero No 1' and 'Biwi No 1,' there is a very good story… — Jackky Bhagnani Copy Share Image
I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I feel the life expectancy of a comedian is 30 seconds. If you don't hook an audience in half-a-minute, you're dead. — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I probably wouldn't be doing comedy, if it wasn't for the fact that I was doing stand-up and getting a few gigs,… — Iain Stirling Copy Share Image
Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy.… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy. — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
