Comedy Quotes · Page 74

I never thought I was funny.

— Peyton List

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

— Anonymous

We've all been the brunt of jokes at times.

— Jonathan Banks

It is really tough acting in a comic role.

— Kirron Kher

“Laugh up to the end and through it.”

— Hosho McCreesh

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

— George Herbert

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

— Elizabeth Taylor

I can't get too offended when somebody parodies me.

— Al Yankovic

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

— Don Rickles

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often.

— Hill Harper

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

— Marco Roth

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

— Willem Dafoe

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.

— Jason Statham

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

— Leslie Mann

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.

— Sanaa Lathan

Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I…

— James Lafferty

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the…

— Sharon Horgan

“Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can’t be played for a laugh.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [ Said on his deathbed ]”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms…

— Tracey Ullman

I think with a comedian, when you get to the point of a greatest hits, it's kind of an acknowledgment that you've…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Because you don't know us at all we laugh when old people fall, but what would you expect with a conscience so…

— Sum 41

I didn't know if I could be funny on stage or write a joke. But I saw that there are no rules.…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I was very serene, and I still am, until I start talking in another voice, then suddenly I have a lot of…

— Kate McKinnon

I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never…

— Jim Gaffigan

I started to make harder jokes before anyone else did. And the producers would get anxious. They'd say, 'That's a little bit…

— John Cleese

The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it…

— Christopher Moore

Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of…

— William Hazlitt

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different…

— Frank Oz

I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Consumers of comedy, they like me and that's great.

— Ralphie May

It's a cliche, but my comedy is all about life.

— John Pinette

I think laughter is a sacred act.

— Tom Shadyac

I like doing different styles of comedy.

— Deon Cole

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

— Bernie Mac

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

— Charles Reade

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

— Charles Forsman

I just want people to have a laugh.

— Joe Lycett