Best Comedy Quotes

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not ‘content creator’?

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

There shouldn’t be so many things that are so sacred that you can’t laugh about them. Laughter is so important.

Trump is good for comedy but bad for the world.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don’t really worry that much about what other people think of me.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning.

I heard the Queen does wicked impressions of African leaders at family gatherings. When they hear me doing the same, it’s just like being in front of their mama.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.

I’ve come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it’s a Greek tragedy.

My idea as far as comedy goes has always been to push the limits of what’s acceptable for a woman to do or say or be. My hero in that would be Lenny Bruce, who teaches us that words have no meaning. It’s the intent behind them that is what’s important.

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It’s as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that’s not the idea at all. The slight trip syndrome, we call it. With tragedy one can get away with things a bit more because audiences don’t always know how to react.

The thing is, comedy’s gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make ‘Humpday’ a comedy.

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners.

I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or the Asian girl with no emotion. People see Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock in a romantic comedy, but not me. You add raceto it, and it became, ‘Well, she’s too Asian’, or, ‘She’s too American’. I kind of got pushed out of both categories. It’s a very strange place to be. You’re not Asian enough and then you’re not American enough, so it gets really frustrating.

We actually did quite a lot of comedy on ‘Xena’. The whole show was very tongue-in-cheek.

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.

I love comedy. I’m not known for comedy, but I love it. I’ve done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy.

Last week I got a flu that I caught, ’cause my daughter coughed … into my mouth.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

The crooks downtown figured out that comedy is like a hammer. It can put up a barn and it can knock down a wall. So they bought it outright and marketed it as Comedy Central.

I’ve always been part of comedy. One of the things about our family was that if we were reasonably funny with each other, particularly my two brothers and myself, when my father was upset with something you’d want to make sure in some way you made him laugh. Because when he didn’t laugh, you were in trouble!

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn’t always funny somewhere else.

Linda Brewer’s example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists firmly in the Heartland tradition of American success stories and comedies.