I would much rather watch a horror film or science fiction than a comedy. I don't know why. I just like them.… — Moon Bloodgood Copy Share Image
If you're not going to give a smile, you can not, some lukewarm, if it is not possible to hear a joke!… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
There are elements of comedy that can be competitive and back stab-y, but one of the underreported sides is that we love… — Pete Holmes Copy Share Image
“What is humor?' one of their professors had posed, and he had answered, ''nondangerous, unexpectedly inappropriate juxtaposition.” — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“[It's] long been known that making fun of oneself is only a way of taking oneself seriously slightly less crude than others. 97” — Marcel Benabou Copy Share Image
I’m really not interested in women as victims. Look at me, I get the last laugh ‘cause I get to be funny… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you do a multi-camera comedy, often there's rules, like, 'We've got to have three main laughs per page.' — Lucy Davis Copy Share Image
I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something. — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I was in a band and it wasn't working out the way I wanted. Then somehow, little by little, I started doing… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,'… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
About a year after I moved to Los Angeles, I decided I wanted to be a joke writer for a late night… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I'm the biggest proponent of test screenings now. There's two ways to face test screenings. For dramas, I don't know if I… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
That's all we had when I was a kid: Robitussin. No matter what you got, Robitussin better handle it. "Daddy, I got… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
'Gutur Gu' is a silent comedy, which I had never done. I wanted to do something out of the box. It's exciting,… — Anita Hassanandani Reddy Copy Share Image
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really like comedy, and making people laugh is one of the few pleasures of being alive. It's a gift - that's… — Janelle James Copy Share Image
Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or… — Hannibal Buress Copy Share Image
I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of… — Alan King Copy Share Image
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. — Mack Sennett Copy Share Image
I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
For me, I've been doing comedy for a long time, and I love it and have no regrets, but 'Chernobyl' expresses a… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Voyeurism, watching people go about their daily lives, is universally funny, no matter the culture, no matter the anything, it's just always… — James Murray Copy Share Image
My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers. — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
With the wacky jokes that we do on 'Great News,' you do overall still want to be coming from a place of… — Briga Heelan Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful… — Pamela Adlon Copy Share Image
Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“You know, there are very few people I could tell that to and have them laugh instead of calling the cops. Or… — Cherise Sinclair Copy Share Image
When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Tis a strange calling!’ muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, ‘to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
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