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Quotes About Comedy

If you want to talk to me after the show, I'd be surprised.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Writing humor is not something every single person can do.
~ Celia Rivenbark
I had a chicken finger that was so big, it was a chicken hand.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I knew nothing about farce until I read Puce a l'Oreille, and had no idea what a deadly serious business it is.
~ John Mortimer
Humor is tragedy plus time.
~ Mark Twain
He kills her in her own humor.
~ William Shakespeare
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
~ Steve Irwin
If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.
~ Christine Feehan
People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even
~ Art Buchwald
My wife a great driver, she once hit a deer. It was in a zoo. There is a pair of shoes on the dashboard. They belong to the last guy she hit
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine.
~ Frankie Boyle
Short people have long faces, and long people have short faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no humor at all.
~ Donald O'Connor
My father was a small claims court jester.
~ Steven Wright
Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."
~ Henny Youngman
Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
~ Mark Twain
everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.
~ Olivia Robertson
My wife will buy anything marked down. Last year she bought an escalator.
~ Henny Youngman
I got my start in silent radio.
~ Bob Monkhouse
My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
~ Roscoe Arbuckle
I was booked into the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas with three other comedians. We all were using the Riviera in-house shampoo, so we all had equal shine and bounce.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
~ E. B. White
If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.
~ Dan Povenmire