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Quotes About Comedy

I've done 'Letterman' twice and he was friendly, he said hello as he was shaking your hand and in front of the audience, but you never spoke to him before or after.
~ Jim Norton
I got 'Will & Grace,' and I thought, 'Oh, this is different. I don't know how to handle this. I'm not bright enough; I'm not quick enough, I don't have the DNA to be a spokesperson for any kind of group of people.'
~ Sean Hayes
I set out to be a comedian, and then the spokesperson thing is kind of just something that came along with it.
~ Josh Blue
For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
~ Jim Gaffigan
Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly laughs you've come to expect from Jessica Alba.
~ Chelsea Handler
When we got married, we agreed on a boy for me, and a girl for you. Mine's upstairs sleeping. Good luck with yours!
~ George Lopez
How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
~ Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
~ Oscar Wilde
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
~ Jimmy Durante
Was the Buddha married? His wife would say, "Are you just going to sit around like that all day?"
~ Garry Shandling
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
~ Honore de Balzac
We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
~ Henny Youngman
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
~ Bob Hope
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The only thing my husband and I have in common is that we were married on the same day.
~ Phyllis Diller
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
Recipe for a happy marriage: My wife and I always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
~ Red Skelton
Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'
~ Rodney Dangerfield
My wife gives good headache.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
~ Groucho Marx
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
~ Erma Bombeck
Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.
~ Jeff Foxworthy