Comedy Quote by Frankie Boyle

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

— Garry Shandling

There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing…

— Rachel Brosnahan

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough. The ones…

— William H. Macy

The two worst enemies of comedy are lack of sleep and not having had a decent meal.

— Bill Bailey

Sometimes the funnier you are, the more vulnerable and scared you are underneath it all. So I think, for me, comedy was always a…

— Whitney Cummings

“villains need to develop a villainous laugh, so that they may simultaneously celebrate their villainous deeds and frighten whatever nonvillainous people happen to be…

— Lemony Snicket

I have tons of jokes with moments in them over the years in stand-up that don't get a laugh but I love them so…

— John Mulaney

once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can…

— Goldie Hawn

The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the funnier it is. You have…

— Chris Pratt

“Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die.”

— Mel Brooks

Comedy tends to come out of things which are quite painful and serious.

— Helen Fielding