Comedy Quotes

• I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Help
  • Funny
  • Sparkle

• I like comedy as a group sport.

  

  Maya Rudolph
  • Comedy

• I don't sell myself. I've never explained my comedy to people who don't get it. Never complain. Never explain.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Comedy

• There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Comedy

• Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. 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, and we knew it was going to be the end, and sometimes it's just better if a comedy show ends and goes away and they never had a series finale.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Depressing

• When doing comedy, I do what makes me laugh. The first person I learned from said I should talk about things I am passionate about - that I love or hate - because the audience likes to see passion. The stuff I rant and rave about stems from a place that really pisses me off.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Hate
  • Comedy
  • Passion

• The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

  

  Ben Edlund
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Bored

• It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Fun
  • Single
  • Comedy

• Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Comedy
  • Inspiration
  • Disappointment

• I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume.

  

  Allison Tolman
  • Great
  • City
  • Chicago

• I remember 'The Cosby Show,' but that was something completely different. Comedy. There was a lightness to it and a sort of unrealistic perfection.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Comedy

• Comedy is easy. First, people have to fall down. Next, include someone a little hefty. It's a hoot.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Fall

• I don't do comedy. I think if a situation is funny you just play it for real and if it's funny, it's funny.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Comedy
  • Play
  • Situation

• The best comedy to me - and again, I grew up with comedy since I was a baby, so I've seen it all - is when you exaggerate the truth, like Richard Pryor did, you understand?

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Baby

• Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were in coffee shops instead of bars. I'd get up and go, 'Hi, I'm 17, and I have jokes about matriculation!' At the time I was like, 'Why is no one laughing?'

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• People talk, 'Oh your father's a misogynist, look what he said about women,' like, on 'Howard Stern.' When he gets with Howard Stern, who's a friend of his, he'll joke around, because it's a comedy show. He's allowed to have a personality.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • People
  • Women
  • Father

• I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

  

  Ben Schwartz
  • World
  • Character
  • Fun

• Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • Comedy

• Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Comedy

• I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

  

  Matthew Gray Gubler
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• I enjoy doing comedy.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Comedy

• I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.

  

  Bruce Robinson
  • People
  • Funny
  • Serious

• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • People
  • Believe
  • Job

• Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle. That's one unfortunate thing.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Different
  • May
  • Movie

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