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Quotes About Humor

I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.
~ Lauren Ashley Carter
If it ain't baroque, don't fax it.
~ Denis Norden
I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.
~ Dane Cook
I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.
~ Elizabeth Banks
I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.
~ Sharon Needles
I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
~ Hari Kondabolu
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
~ Dashiell Hammett
The audience is so important. Because there's something that I might think is super funny, but if it's just not getting the feedback, I have to let it go.
~ Ali Wong
It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.
~ Jon Lovitz
I believe in laughter. I believe laughter is good for the soul. I believe in making other people laugh to make them feel good.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
A lot of stand-up is talking about your perspective in the world and your experiences in life. And I think it takes any comedian a while to find out what their thing is, or what they feel good doing on stage.
~ Rose Matafeo
I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
~ Jerry Lewis
I'm 5' 11" as I proudly say - just so I don't have to say six feet.
~ Famke Janssen
You can compare me with Greta Garbo. I have big feet, too.
~ Lee Remick
I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.
~ Billy Crystal
My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats, and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!
~ Prince Royce
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
~ Joan Rivers
The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.
~ Jen Kirkman
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible.
~ Jorma Taccone
I see myself as the female John Cleese.
~ Erin O'Connor
I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are.
~ Graham Linehan
I think I'm always inspired by really, really funny, amazing women, but I'm also inspired by really funny, amazing men. I think there's more of a feminist voice, like with Amy Schumer being out right now, whom I adore.
~ Cecily Strong
I'm not a bleeding-heart feminist, but I do like to call out that stuff in my act. It's nice when you find a perspective that no one has hit on.
~ Nikki Glaser
Who laughs less than feminists?
~ Tucker Carlson