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Quotes About Comedy

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over.
~ Drew Carey
Howard Stern -- the uglier, more disgusting I draw him, the more he likes me.
~ Drew Friedman
I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
~ Hugh Grant
I never told a joke in my life.
~ Andy Kaufman
Life is a joke that's just begun.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
~ Rajneesh
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
~ Chris Tucker
I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
~ Don Rickles
I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it.
~ George Carlin
In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.
~ Jemaine Clement
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
~ John Guare
I don't really write jokes. I wait for stuff to happen in life, and then I tell it on stage.
~ Kathleen Madigan
It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
~ Larry David
Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.
~ Madeline Kahn
I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"
~ Will Smith
Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"
~ Daniel Tosh
If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much.
~ Dana Gould
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
~ Walt Disney Company
With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
~ Eric Idle
Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter.
~ Fauja Singh
I never stole a joke in my life. I just find them before they're lost.
~ Milton Berle
I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry
~ Norman Wisdom