Audience Quote by Billy Gardell

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling…

— Michael Showalter

Well, I am not always joking, sometimes I am serious. But some people always expect you to be funny. If you were like you…

— Dom Irrera

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

— Rita Rudner

I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope…

— Jon Richardson

I'm a goofball and a comedian

— Kid Cudi

I know what I want to talk about, but I don't really know what's funny about a joke until I perform it in front…

— James Acaster

I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball.

— Boris Kodjoe

If I tell a joke on stage and the crowd laughs for a minute, I stand there for a minute and enjoy them laughing…

— Anthony Jeselnik

People who take themselves too seriously, who can't see anything else, are usually funny.

— Christopher Guest

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the…

— David Walliams

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

— Vince Vaughn

It upsets me where you do a take and people go 'that's so funny,' and you think 'I was being serious.'

— Tom Bateman