You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore Copy Share Image
“The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!” — Ray S. Jones Copy Share Image
Just because you're laughing, it doesn't mean the audience will, necessarily. — Jon Tenney Copy Share Image
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I don't really like sketch shows and panel shows. I just can't get my head round them. — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
Ask anyone the best part of the classic comedy, 'My Cousin Vinny,' and they'll likely say Mona Lisa Vito. — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
“When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to… — L.F. Young Copy Share Image
Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up. — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've got quite a strong drive, and that can be slightly deplorable. Struggling to become a famous comedian - there's something weird… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my funniest friend in the pub;… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really… — Brad Garrett Copy Share Image
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
It's an unknown quantity. It's actually almost a cliché to say it, how hard comedy is. What's that famous quote? "Dying is… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I'm trained as an actor for the stage - classically trained, believe it or not - and I worked closely with Stella… — Michael Richards Copy Share Image
To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Practical jokes are a demonstration that the distinction between seriousness and play is not a law of nature but a social convention… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing,… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
