My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony. — Tony Rock Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst. — Melissa Peterman Copy Share Image
If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself. — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
“The laugh came then, a marvelous honking hoorah so infectious that Dill felt it should be quarantined.” — Ross Thomas Copy Share Image
Mr. McCabe thinks that I am not serious but only funny, because Mr. McCabe thinks that funny is the opposite of serious.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When I started, I used to be like a tiger. My comedy developed in the comedy clubs in London and up and… — Rhod Gilbert Copy Share Image
Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I don't mind what people say about me as long as it's an opinion or the truth. If someone says, 'He's the… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
I think it's great some hotels provide stationery. Because the first thing I like to do when I get to a hotel… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
