Comedy Quotes

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

My comedy notebooks are filled with random journal entries. It's all the same. I can look back on old joke notebooks, and know exactly what was going on in my life.

It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.

It’s funny how one summer can change everything.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

There are so many great comedies, right now. I like how comedies are really mixing. They're not just one thing. It can be very moving and dramatic, and yet hilarious.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.

Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

Comedy works in fashion cycles, in a way. And sometimes, studios will imitate those cycles a little too much.

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

Thank you for listening to Comedy Bang Bang! My name is Scott Aukerman and I will see you next week.

Оf course you can only write comedy when you're smoking weed.

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

Murder is easy. Comedy is hard.

That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

We couldn't live without comedy.

I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

Jeff Ross has a new show on Comedy Central where he roasts the news. It'll be perfect for people who find Jon Stewart too handsome and funny.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

It's always funny to find what people's button is.

Good comedy doesn't have to be a comedy idea.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.

I'll save that for Mrs. Battier.

Nom, do say something funny so she can admire!

Being a family in general is a comedy of errors.

I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump's skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's funnier; nobody is smarter than Albert Brooks.

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.