Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're… — Colleen Haskell Copy Share Image
I'd always liked having a laugh with my friends, and I'd done comedy in plays; but then my friends asked me to… — Rachel Parris Copy Share Image
Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and outs of being a Hollywood… — Danny Wallace Copy Share Image
My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
'Breaking In' is a very different office comedy and a caper comedy. Aside from 'Chuck,' there is no half-hour comedy that does… — Adam F. Goldberg Copy Share Image
That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Pastor Clever: [at Smokey] Excuse me brother, what we call drugs at the 74th Street Baptist Church we call the sin of… — Chris Tucker Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
There are certain types of stand-up, who are very successful, who do one type of joke, and never stray out of that.… — Sean Lock Copy Share Image
We've progressed well beyond the four humors in the two thousand-odd years since Hippocrates, but we still haven't satisfied the urge to… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I think comedy is difficult, and I'm amazed so many people want to do it. I'll be buying jeans and somebody will… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
I don't know if the art of stand-up will survive. Stand-up seems dated. Now you can do a mini-movie or a short… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“Says O'Sullivan to me, "Mr. Fay, I'll have a word wid yeh?" "Certainly," says I; "what can I do for you?" "Sell… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Although there have been witty big menOscar Wilde comes first to mindwit and humor seem more in the province of the smaller… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lot of times in comedy, and also in podcasting and television, there are different kinds of voices that can be celebrated.… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
Certainly in my appetite for more challenges, it's very much alive. I love comedy and it comes to me in a natural… — Shawn Levy Copy Share Image
If something's awful, I find it funny. If something's funny, I find it funny. It's my natural, go-to place. — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but… — John Morreall Copy Share Image
I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do. — Virginia Madsen Copy Share Image
The rules of comedy are, don't complain, it's a brilliant job. You complain, and you're seen as losing touch with reality. — Lee Mack Copy Share Image
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed… — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Somehow people were connected to my funny bone and they always laughed at my jokes, and I also started enjoying that. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
There's nothing less funny than somebody trying to be funny. I loved Jack Dee, then I met him and I became the… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Some joys are better explained in silence, as a smile gets more audible than laughter. I was asked if I enjoyed my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of them relate to farts but they are not fart jokes. They would just be a fart in the joke but… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for:… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
I'm gonna play this game the way I want to. It might be serious, it might be a comedy, it might be… — Mo'Nique Copy Share Image
I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
My own personal rule is to tell jokes that I think the person I'm making them about can laugh at, to go… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of… — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
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