Comedy Quotes · Page 78

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

— Tom Lehrer

“Life without humor is not funny.”

— Fishel Jacobs

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

— Hanoi Hannah

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

— Teri Polo

Making people laugh is the greatest experience.

— Rebecca Romijn

I think of myself as a light comedian.

— Denis Lawson

“ If you have to explain a joke, it hasn't worked.”

— Susanna Flister

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

— Larry McMurtry

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

— Steve Carell

At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.

— Zazie Beetz

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

— Abraham Cowley

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

— Marsha Thomason

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

— Henri Bergson

I am shocked that both the Congress and SAD make fun of comedians.

— Gurpreet Ghuggi

I really think that you can extract a lot of comedy out of really dramatic, intense situations.

— Jason Gann

It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

— George Carlin

The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that.

— Mack Sennett

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of…

— Alan King

For me, I've been doing comedy for a long time, and I love it and have no regrets, but 'Chernobyl' expresses a…

— Craig Mazin

As far as what makes a viral video, then it's gotta be something that you've either never seen before, a fresh piece…

— Adam McKay

I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I love stand-up. I look at it as a way to always stay productive. I couldn't imagine only being an actor or…

— Hannibal Buress

Anyone who is considered funny will tell you, sometimes without your even asking, that deep inside they are very serious, neurotic, introspective…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

— Carl Hiaasen

Of all the awards, the Stand-up Comic Audience Award is our favorite. It is a chance to honor the performers who spend…

— George Schlatter

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when…

— Matt Dillon

You know, because you outline a movie, it kinda comes at the same time. I mean, there are days when you are…

— Todd Phillips

With Comedy Central, they produced it and did everything - I just had to walk up there and tell the jokes -…

— Jo Koy

“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be…

— Kathryn Hurn

I was always just like, 'Standups are making it up.' A lot of people have that myth about standup. And so it…

— Baron Vaughn

So many comedians, if you asked them, 'What's your priority in standup?' it's probably gonna be to make people laugh or to…

— Matt Besser

Comedy is very important, yes. For one thing, it keeps you sane. But it's not really a conversion. I mean, it's marginally…

— Tom Lehrer

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

— Adam Carolla

Comedy is a very difficult thing to do.

— Johnny Lever

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

— Theodor Adorno

One must take what comes, with laughter.

— Olivia de Havilland

Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.

— Bob Hope

I don't see myself making comedies always.

— Jody Hill

It's fun to pick the worst jokes you can think of.

— Jim Norton

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

— Shannon Woodward