Comedy Quotes · Page 58

Laughing is medicine for the soul.

— Anonymous

There are parodies of non-existent things.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If you aren't laughing, you aren't living!

— Carlos Mencia

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

— Mel Brooks

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

— Charlie Chaplin

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

— Henri Bergson

I love standup and I haven't given it up.

— Ray Romano

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

I mean my goal is to get Michael Richards to do stand up at the Laugh Factory to an all black audience.

— Daniel Tosh

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

— Roger Craig Smith

Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean?

— Lil Jon

I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young.

— Dakota Johnson

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

— Paul Merton

Comedy is all about timing, and playing the truth of the moment.

— Krysten Ritter

Never in a million years did I get into comedy to make anyone upset.

— Sarah Sherman

Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.

— Abbi Jacobson

There's not many comedy characters that make me laugh as much as The Rock does; it's nice to have a big muscly…

— James Acaster

I want to go places where there are really well-meaning people doing work that is interesting and seems to really matter and…

— Tina Smith

I think when you get to that point in your life where you're the first to laugh at yourself, you're at the…

— Jeannie Mai

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

— Wanda Sykes

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience…

— Vir Das

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it…

— Gina Barreca

A lot of things matter in comedy - the script, the lines, your timing, the co-actor's timing, how it's shot.

— Jitendra Kumar

“Make thing effective for laughter and hapiness until the day of Judgment - before we make it "Effective" for you Hell...”

— A Gentlemen

I found my friends very amusing the first time because they are funny and amusing. They really are because they're people who've…

— Duncan Roy

Socrates was killed by his own people. He was! [Nods head]. Coz he questioned everything When is a house a house? Just…

— Eddie Izzard

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script.…

— Chris Wedge

Well, I'd say that the minute sound came in, it was everybody talking their heads off and going for dialogue laughs. All…

— Buster Keaton

There are certain things that are probably too mean. I don't particularly like fat jokes. Those kind of bother me. But I…

— Todd Barry

Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a…

— Dave Abrams

I'm not saying that comedy has to be a certain thing - I'm not trying to define comedy, where it's like, it…

— Thomas Middleditch

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Comedy is hard. Any idiot can have an opinion.

— Ann Coulter

I'd much prefer to have a laugh instead of a fight.

— Mike Connors

Laughter is the closest distance between 2 people.

— Alexia

Human life is a fine blend of comedy and tragedy.

— Sreenadh

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

— Barbara Mertz

Sometimes I was so funny I couldn’t stand myself.

— Moira J. Moore

Comedians play off of social commentary.

— Jermaine Fowler

“Is this some kind of joke?”

— Tim Johnston