Quotes About Comedy

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.

Tristen had been only half kidding. Samael's expression hinted that the angel had the other half. Tristen guessed that added up to one complete sense of humour between them.

Mammals, apparently, were pretty funny to a carnivorous plant.

At least somebody's sense of humor was intact.

Don't step on any dead bats." It took me a moment to realize he was joking.

I'm the first one who sees every romantic comedy in theaters.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

La vie est la farce à mener par tous.

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

Como mucho era el que, con juicio incomprensible para los actores de la humana comedia —por no decir mojiganga de matachines—, manejaba la tramoya, haciendo abrirse malignos escotillones o girar improvisados bofetones, poniéndote unas veces en tremendos bretes y sacándote otras de las situaciones más adversas

Punning and groaning are brothers.

We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.

Suddenly I see the comedy of little men, myself included, who are pitted against a riddle that is as vast and indifferent as the blue sky above us. (pg. 170)

Humor - the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

Ever seen the play Arsenic and Old Lace?

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.