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Quotes About Comedy

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.
~ Paula Poundstone
Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em... couldn't eat a whole one though.
~ Murdoc Niccals
I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.
~ John Leguizamo
Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
~ Bob Saget
I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.
~ Uma Thurman
That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.
~ Jason Sudeikis
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .
~ Cole Porter
I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.
~ Richard Simmons
I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
~ Rita Moreno
I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth!
~ Leonard Marx
I told my wife 'hey honey come on, let's make love like the old days.' She asked me for 50 bucks.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
~ Horace Walpole
It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up.
~ Joan Rivers
Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer.
~ Joan Rivers
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
~ Johnny Knoxville
It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible.
~ Johnny Knoxville
Comedy's so subjective, and if someone comes to watch, doesn't get it, doesn't find it funny, then fine.
~ Johnny Vegas
I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.
~ Johnny Vegas
When he saw the contents of my MP3 player one afternoon, he laughed so hard he nearly dislodged one of his tubes.
~ Jojo Moyes
had laughed for a full minute, trying to straighten his face when
~ Jojo Moyes
At his apartment she peed with the bathroom door open. It sounded like a visiting horse was relieving itself.
~ Jojo Moyes
My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.
~ Jon Lovitz
Success is always less funny than failure.
~ Jon Ronson