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Quotes About Comedy

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
~ Red Skelton
Most folks with a terrific sense of humor know that loneliness, anxiety, depression and comedy share a basement apartment in a sketchy neighborhood.
~ Regina Barreca
He threw up his hands and waved them around, and shook all over, and laughed as if he never expected to hear a joke again and would use it all up on this one.
~ Rex Stout
My husband says I feed him like he's a god; every meal is a burnt offering.
~ Rhonda Hansome
Mummy always had French maids, and Daddy always chased them. It kept their marriage happy.
~ Rhys Bowen
I laughed. "I must have the only servant who never attempts to put on any airs and graces for me." "But then she's a hopeless case, we all admit that,
~ Rhys Bowen
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
~ Too civil by half.
Lincoln loved other people's jokes as much as his own.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.
~ Richard Brookhiser
Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.) My magnificent octopus.
~ Richard Curtis
National Public Radio's long-running show called Car Talk. The show consisted of brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi—both MIT graduates—taking calls from people with questions about their cars. Improbably enough, it was hysterically funny, especially to them. They would laugh endlessly at their own jokes.
~ Richard H. Thaler
I don't now how you could not kid about love and still claim to have a sense of humor
~ Richard Russo
Later in life, he was fond of remarking, rather ruefully, that he always had the last word in all differences of opinion with his wife, and that—two words, actually—was, "Yes, dear.
~ Richard Russo
William: You'd look better with your hair chopped off. Reggie: You'd look better with your face chopped off.
~ Richmal Crompton
Do you always try to kill people when they blow their nose?
~ Rick Riordan
It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.
~ Rick Riordan
Now, if you have never been hit by a flying burrito, count yourself lucky. In terms of deadly projectiles, it's right up there with grenades and cannonballs.
~ Rick Riordan
Everyone hates clowns, Otis said. Even other clowns hate clowns.
~ Rick Riordan
Coach Hedge shouted, 'Let the movie star go, you big ugly cupcake! Or I'm gonna plant my hoof right up your...
~ Rick Riordan
It doesn't matter! From waist down, my best friend is a donkey.....
~ Rick Riordan
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment. "I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will—" "Die?" Carter suggested.
~ Rick Riordan
You think it's okay that we're eating Rudolph? Dude, Percy said, I could eat Prancer and Blitzen, too. I'm HUNGRY.
~ Rick Riordan
So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?
~ Rick Riordan
Plus, humor is a good way to hide the pain. - Leo
~ Rick Riordan