Comedy Quotes · Page 47

I started doing stand-up in college.

— Carlos Alazraqui

You gotta keep the funny intact.

— Seth MacFarlane

I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

— Mary Boykin Chesnut

I would love to do more family comedy.

— Jamie Bamber

I'm very creative alone and I make myself laugh.

— Melissa Villasenor

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

— Mike Birbiglia

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

— Mel Brooks

I always loved working in comedy.

— Robert Duncan McNeill

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

— Lewis Mumford

Every time I do something silly, it comes off really funny because it's natural.

— Shaquille O'Neal

“If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.”

— Geoffrey Wood

I don't even think about the comedy community at all.

— Brian Quinn

If there's something funny to be said, I will say it.

— Kevin Owens

O you gonna go get steve huh…give me the trash ill take it out

— Kevin Heart

What I like the most about you is that you can make me laugh, when nothing's even funny.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I initially signed up for Twitter just to do jokes I wasn't going to do in my stand-up routine.

— Jim Gaffigan

“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it's actually the…

— Anne Frank

I am myself sometimes, and I do state my opinions, but not in a comedy routine and not in my character. There…

— Ricky Gervais

Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight ~Tabitha

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

The great thing about 'The Exorcist' is it's dead serious horror. No comedy, no self-reference, it's a documentary style.

— Leigh Whannell

I go out with my mates and after a drink they'll ask, 'How are you a comedian? You're not the funniest among…

— John Bishop

I often run teaching down in my standup, but I had some great years, and it's a great job. It represented a…

— Greg Davies

“Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like…

— Monty Python

When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because…

— Demetri Martin

Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all…

— Bill Cosby

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I know I can elicit a wide range of reactions from audience members. I know I can make people scream with horror…

— Sarah Sherman

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of…

— Jason Reitman

People always ask me, Do you ever think you'll wake up one morning and not be funny? That thought would never occur…

— Woody Allen

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist…

— Nish Kumar

What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and…

— Natasha Leggero

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

— Jeffrey Wright

“That shit was funny, but it ain't right.”

— Ernessa T. Carter

I want to do dramas. I want to do comedies.

— Johnny Knoxville

Sometimes people can't take a joke.

— Chris Redd

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

— Karl Barth

He who laughs last, laughs best.

— Anonymous

“A joke was the best barometer for mental weather.”

— Charles Sheffield

You look for comic relief in difficult times.

— Colin Morgan