Comedy Quotes · Page 60

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

— Betty White

When you're a comedian, you're just by yourself.

— Maria Bamford

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

— Penelope Gilliatt

It is not easy when people laugh at you.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

— Simone Giertz

As a person is so must you humor them.

— Anonymous

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

— Penelope Spheeris

I'm a perfectionist and I love this comedy thing.

— Chris Redd

You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.

— Aidan Quinn

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

— Matt Lucas

All of my comedian friends are some of the best joke writers in the world.

— Ron White

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.

— Dorothy Gish

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

— David Leavitt

Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?

— Joel Goodman

To be a really great standup artist, a lot of it comes from the mind.

— Sean Strickland

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

Humour breaks down boundaries, it topples our self-importance, it connects people, and because it engages and entertains, it ultimately enlightens.

— John Agard

In the early days - especially in a male-dominated industry like comedy - I felt a lot of shame. We're made to…

— Esther Povitsky

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy…

— Gerald Stern

I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an…

— Arthur Smith

I think brilliant stuff comes out of working with limitations. One liners are very limiting, but that's what drew me to them…

— Anthony Jeselnik

“Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from…

— Siobhan Dowd

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people…

— Paul Reiser

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

— Varun Grover

“Like, I'm lazy, but I'm also good at not-doing things I'm not supposed to do...Being funny is a way of not-doing. Sit…

— John Green

“You should be laughing. You should be laughing your fool head off. Laughing at Jason for being stupid enough to let you…

— Maggie Wells

But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you…

— Joan Rivers

“To laugh is to live profoundly... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, "that delectable…

— Anonymous

No one claim, no one clamour, no one grievance when mercy comes to itself, than I take to laugh. when persecuting the…

— Mak_786

But to your point - you also raise a point, too, that it's not that, like, a bromance is necessarily a new…

— Steve Zissis

“Detective Inspector Eccles sighed. He may ordinarily have met his sigh with the question of why the newly appointed Superintendent Dickinson was…

— Tom Conrad

I like silly things. I think that "silly-stupid" or "stupid-smart" might be my philosophy, which is to combine a veneer of intelligence…

— Michael Showalter

Don't worry, I'm hilarious.

— Bo Burnham

Laughter is a form of internal jogging.

— Norman Cousins

I don't have jokes that I can't defend.

— Jim Norton

I love making jokes on the Internet.

— Jack Schlossberg

Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

— Stan Smith

Good comedy writing is always coming from truth.

— Kate Herron

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

— Charles R. Swindoll

I would like to do maybe a smaller romantic comedy.

— Linda Fiorentino