Comedy Quotes · Page 469

For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have.

— Jennette McCurdy

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without even your asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective…

— Wendy Wasserstein

“Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?…

— James S.A. Corey

You can't be a real spy and have everybody in the world know who you are and what your drink is. That's…

— Roger Moore

I think I identify as a comedian before kind of anything else. Before I identify as a person, as a human being…

— Patti Harrison

Craig Jones: We ain't got no sugar. Smokey: No sugar? Damn. Y'all ain't never got two things that match. Either y'all got…

— Various

“You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees Excerpt from To Kiss a King by…

— Grace Willows

If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or…

— John Oliver

There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don’t have…

— Tina Fey

I've been through alot of bad in my life but now it's just getting to the point where everything is funny to…

— Anonymous

My partner after Fred Freeman was Jerry Belson. And Jerry Belson, after I was doing so well writing situation comedy, said, this…

— Garry Marshall

I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a…

— Dane Cook

There's only a handful of people who are just purely, inherently funny, and I'm not one of them. I need content and…

— Gary Cole

“Why put together a stand-up comedy routine? Especially if you’re not planning a comedy career? Because in the very process of creating…

— Judy Carter

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things…

— John Oliver

I'm an actor. I've always been an actor. I've always approached all my comedy as an actor. I don't really care about…

— Brett Gelman

I think because of the Internet I was able to study comedy from quite a young age and watch a lot of…

— Bo Burnham

My dad died, and my grandfather died, and my great-grandfather died. And the guy before him, I don't know. Probably died.

— Norm MacDonald

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have…

— Gloria Calderon Kellett

Sometimes people say,' One day you are going to look back at this and laugh.' My question is:' Why wait?

— Richard Bandler

Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.

— Dov Davidoff

We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or…

— Tom Malinowski

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so…

— Sandra Bullock

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life.…

— Evan Peters

I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

— Lisa Lampanelli

I think I realized that Dave Barry was funnier than I'll ever be, and he made no attempt to make any actual…

— Joel Stein

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an…

— Matthew Lillard

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses…

— Johnny Carson

A lot of what I think is funny is usually through some sort of character, or speaking earnestly one second and then…

— Patti Harrison

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so…

— Tatiana Maslany

Comedy is one of the hardest genres. You can tell if it's working or not. If the director is convinced of the…

— Lara Dutta

The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality.

— Brian Tracy

My whole life, growing up, I always wanted to be in comedy. I never felt comfortable doing the 'teen hunk' thing.

— Dustin Milligan

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

— Rory Bremner

Sometimes laughs oddly when frighten and I been hanging with my females friends more often lately... I'm noticing I'm laughing like that…

— Michael Country

“But comedy is ingrained. A writer doesn't choose to be comic. You can choose a plot, or not to have one. You…

— John Irving

I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the…

— Barack Obama

At first, I was saying to my rep, 'I don't know if this is really my thing.' I get heart palpitations just…

— Alycia Debnam-Carey

The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that…

— Mike O'Malley