Welcome to our collection of Comedy Quotes! Laughter is truly the best medicine, and what better way to induce it than with some witty and humorous quotes? Whether you’re in need of a good chuckle or simply appreciate the art of comedy, you’ve come to the right place. From timeless classics to contemporary gems, we’ve curated a selection of quotes that are sure to tickle your funny bone and brighten your day.
Comedy has a unique way of shedding light on the absurdities of life, offering a fresh perspective and reminding us not to take ourselves too seriously. Through clever wordplay, sharp observations, and a healthy dose of satire, comedians and writers have crafted lines that resonate with audiences across generations. So, whether you’re looking for a witty remark to share with friends or seeking inspiration for your next stand-up routine, you’ll find plenty of comedic gold here.
In comedy, when you bomb, especially at The Comedy Store in front of a sold-out house? I think it would have been way worse if I bombed there than losing a UFC fight. Brendan Schaub
Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I’m not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is. Tim Vine
Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. Mo Rocca
I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn. Yvonne De Carlo
You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men. Jo Brand
I’m still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it’s comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it’s drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character’s in. Chris Pratt
I paint; I draw and paint – I’ve been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy. Steven Wright
We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look. Aldous Huxley
The true essence of comedy is a baby seal hunt. Michael O’Donoghue
If I can make a teacher’s salary doing comedy, I think that’s better than being a teacher. Dave Chappelle
Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have. Eric Idle
Stand-up comedy is not a man’s job. It’s an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who’s allowed to talk. Katherine Ryan
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can’t fake it… try to fake three laughs in an hour – ha ha ha ha ha – they’ll take you away, man. You can’t. Lenny Bruce
Comedy is surprises, so if you’re intending to make somebody laugh and they don’t laugh, that’s funny. Norm MacDonald
The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real. Jordan Peele
In WWE, a gay person is usually portrayed like some sort of comedy act to be mocked and laughed at. The world’s not like that anymore. Kenny Omega
My favourite kind of comedy comes from the awkwardness of living, the stuff that makes you cringe but borders on tragic – that is more interesting to me. It resonates; it comes from emotional truth. Taika Waititi
Morvern Callar’s’ a really weird film, in a sense, where I was trying to experiment with taking things in a different direction, and it kind of half works and it half doesn’t. And I kind of felt with that film that perhaps I should have pushed it more into the realms of black comedy slightly. Lynne Ramsay
People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I’m a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy. Gary Oldman
All people are sad clowns. That’s the key to comedy – and it’s a buffer against reality. Bob Odenkirk
We’re all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we’ve got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, ‘Hey, we’re all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.’ We need to have a sense of humor about it; that’s kind of the way I’ve always faced my comedy. Jeff Foxworthy
I was doing a show at the Comedy Store which Eddie Izzard saw, and we chatted for a bit afterwards. I didn’t really know he was; we just hung out as comedians together, and when he heard my story, he said, ‘Why don’t you tell that on stage?’ I didn’t really want to burden people with all that, but he said that I could have fun with it. Trevor Noah
Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. Bryant H. McGill
There’s a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up – or didn’t – and Jamaican stories. Neil Gaiman
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. Tina Fey
I just like being able to voice my opinion. That’s all comedy is. Comedy is just a different perspective. Perspective of what you think opposed to what other people think. I try to uphold it and make it educational as well as inspirational, as well as funny. All around, I think it’s very important. Deon Cole
Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration. Martin Freeman
Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Will Durst
I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy. Sandra Bullock
When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then… this laugh happened. I thought, ‘Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?’ Carol Burnett
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other. Jack Dee
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. Sam Kinison
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I’m outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it’s hardest to see. Robin Williams
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part. Miguel de Cervantes
I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with ‘topics’ – race, white versus black – you’re not separating from the pack. You’re doing what everybody else is doing. Kevin Hart
I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time. Snoop Dogg
‘Wonder Showzen’ is one of my favorite shows of all time. When I first saw it, I thought it was so funny and new and original and edgy and insane and subversive. I didn’t know comedy could do that. It redefined what I thought you could do with a TV show. Eric Andre
Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma. Robin Williams
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. Benito Mussolini
I tell fans who ask me why I’m not doing comedy anymore that I’m a different person. I’ve grown and I’ve matured. I’ve made a transition to where I really want to be. Flip Wilson
‘Saturday Night Live’ was actually started with a show that Lorne Michaels and I did at a summer camp called Timberlane in Ontario when we were 14 and 15. We would do an improvisational show with music, comedy and acting. Howard Shore
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Erma Bombeck
Comedy is acting out optimism. Robin Williams
John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I’ve ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people. Kaley Cuoco
I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‘Boston Phoenix,’ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‘deadpan.’ Steven Wright
Humor borne out of cruelty happens to be the easiest and therefore lowest form of comedy: It is cheap stuff and it does not elevate the candidate, nor make him a more fundamentally sympathetic character. Alex Wagner
I’m a comedian, for God’s sake. Viewers shouldn’t trust me. And you know what? They’re hip enough to know they shouldn’t trust me. I’m just doing stand-up comedy. Dennis Miller
Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did ‘Once Upon A Time’ for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I’ve done some movies because I would regret them if I didn’t, but other projects I’ve done because they’ve scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally. Ginnifer Goodwin
Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It’s a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, ‘Isn’t it funny that we do that?’ It’s a way of reaching out. Kate McKinnon
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We’re reflections. It’s a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it. Alan King
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. Steve Martin
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. Horace Walpole
It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It’s not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I’m no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I’m great or good at it or anything, it’s just that I’ve done a bunch of them, so you’re not shocked. Jonah Hill
You can’t study comedy; it’s within you. It’s a personality. My humor is an attitude. Don Rickles
Yet there are some people – Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he’s a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I’m doing it right now and you all seem bored. Bob Saget
When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly. Mort Sahl
Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn’t about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can’t go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I’m lucky my face can look so hideous. Jennifer Coolidge
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. LeBron James
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. Martin McDonagh
I don’t like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It’s so cheap. Olivia Colman
I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I’m a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. Hugh Grant
Comedy is just an unspoken language. Everybody understands it. Funny is funny. When it’s not funny, they’ll let you know. Jo Koy
It’s both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy. Tony Hancock
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then. Bill Murray
I still don’t understand why the tag of ‘action hero’ follows me. My films have all these elements – romance, action and comedy. None of the fight sequences of my character is an act of randomness. There’s a reason to action in my films. Sunny Deol
Every day is a surprise. There are confirmations of an interconnectivity and synchronicity which inspire, titillate and confirm the inherent comedy of the universe. Billy Zane
It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside. Chris Tucker
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed. Bill Burr
I would love to do a romantic comedy. Evan Peters
One thing I hate in ethnic comedy is giving the audience the opportunity to laugh in a racist way at a thing. A lot of times dwarf comedians will do that, Arab comics, and gay comics will do it; everyone is laughing, but they’re not laughing at the joke, they’re laughing at this crazy character. Ari Shaffir
I listened to this interview once with Jerry Seinfeld that really influenced my comedy and all of my writing, which is that when you’re starting out in comedy, it’s the audience that tells you what’s funny about you. And you need to listen to that and make a note of that. Mike Birbiglia
Literally, our show is friendship on display. It’s not a written comedy show. It’s not a reality show. It’s just four friends making each other laugh. And who doesn’t enjoy watching people enjoy their friends? Joe Gatto
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance. Mel Brooks
My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too. Dwayne Johnson
If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most. Trevor Noah
I went to school with Steven Wright, who was the shyest guy I knew, and one day someone suddenly told me that he was in a club doing standup comedy. I went down to his club and he was great. Another friend of mine, who was pretty much a thief by trade, was hosting the show. So I thought, ‘If these guys can do it, then so can I.’ Denis Leary
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion. Fred Allen
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings. Ellen DeGeneres
Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited. John Cleese
I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different. Bernie Mac
Drama is easy. Comedy’s hard. Peter Bogdanovich
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Sid Caesar
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun. Jerry Seinfeld
Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing. Winston Marshall
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. Joe Rogan
There’s something outrageously funny about the bold-faced lying that’s going on, in a general way. Just the blatant denial of facts, whether it’s climate change or crowd sizes. Every day, there’s another blatant lie. I think there’s comedy in there somewhere. Matt Walsh
The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). Dawn Powell
I did a ‘Golden Girls’ once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least. Dick Van Dyke
Comedy is only funny when there’s real pain. Sebastian Stan
The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else. Aaron Allston
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them. Moliere
I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all. Steve Burton
With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on. Salman Khan
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks
You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don’t have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too. Ellen Hollman
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile. J. B. Priestley
I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn’t feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I’m a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn’t mean they should vote for the person I like. That’s why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements. Bob Newhart