Comedy Quote by Scott Stevens

“When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

Comedians who aren't screenwriters are telling jokes that they themselves think are funny. They're expressing their own view of what they think funny is.

— Craig Mazin

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, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to…

— Kathy Griffin

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

— George S. Kaufman

Overseas, language barriers keep me from doing a lot of talking and some of the jokes that I think are funny and they're like…

— Avery Sunshine

I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed…

— David Cross

When I'm telling jokes, I'm constantly in motion. I can't stand in one place.

— Eddie Griffin

I never really feel like just standing there and telling jokes. I want to move around. In fact, it's hard for me to write…

— Chris D'Elia

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have…

— Adam Carolla

I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.

— Rita Rudner

I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of…

— Pope Benedict XVI