Comedy Quotes

2637 Comedy quotes by 1344 unique authors

There is certainly a higher percentage of wit in British comedy than in American comedy. What always tickles me is the way in which people… — Christopher Lloyd
I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set… — Emraan Hashmi
I love going to the movie theatre, seeing live comedy, and going to amusement parks. — Jennette McCurdy
I feel so fortunate to have been able to work so much, particularly in the horror-thriller genre, but I would love to be able to… — Danielle Panabaker
You come to my comedy show to be entertained. — Bill Cosby
If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a… — Michael Spiller
Diplomats willing to sit for an interview usually prefer the terra firma of CNN over the whoopee cushion of Comedy Central. — Kevin Bleyer
My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in… — Cecily Strong
I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious. — Uzo Aduba
The first rule of comedy should be, you must be very lazy. Whoever works should be immediately removed. — Cyrus Broacha
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and… — Cyrus Broacha
I always loved working in comedy. — Robert Duncan McNeill
I love period dramas and language, but I love comedy as well. — Unknown Author
My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what… — Gad Elmaleh
After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the… — Hari Kondabolu
I think I enlist comedy to a serious purpose. — Tom Stoppard
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right. — Tracy Morgan
If you do something that is not gags and punchlines and is character-based, where there are no jokes as such, then it all has to… — Darren Boyd
In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is. — Ciaran Hinds
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical… — John Cullum
Comedy is the slave of time. What seemed funny then is unlikely to seem funny now, just as what strikes us as funny now would… — Craig Brown
Comedy has been so good to me. — Bernie Mac
The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them. — Bernie Mac
Acting by yourself is pretty darn hard, especially having to do physical comedy. — Gillian Jacobs
I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible. — Mark Wahlberg

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