Best Comedy Quotes

There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules. ~ Robin Ince

I think the best comedy comes from stuff that's based in reality. ~ Pauly Shore

I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed. ~ Patti LuPone

I want my audience to be my friends - that is when they will get the best comedy. If they see me as a performer, they won't get the best show. ~ Trevor Noah

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

There's something about courting the darkness that makes some people see the truth in raw, twisted ways, as though they were shining a black light on life to illuminate the absurdity of it all. Comics tell you a truth you can only see from the underside of the psyche. At its best, comedy is prophesy and societal dream interpretation. At its worst it's just dick jokes. ~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted ... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director. ~ Marlon Wayans

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak. ~ Ian Hislop

I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised ... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure. ~ Dylan Moran

The best comedy is always played straight down the middle. ~ Tom Hiddleston

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. ~ Zooey Deschanel

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited. ~ John Cleese

The best comedy audiences in the country and this is tried and true, I'm not just saying it, in my opinion are Boston, Atlanta, and Chicago. ~ Denis Leary

Comedy Central made their own awards show. They were named best comedy channel. ~ Andy Kindler

Comedy works best when people recognise themselves. ~ Jason Alexander

Some of the best dramatic actors have started in comedy. ~ J. B. Smoove

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. ~ Graham Chapman

Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. ~ Burt Ward

It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a ... from sort of a public relations standpoint. ~ Will Arnett

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made. ~ Julie Delpy

The best comedy I ever did was when people didn't know who I was. ~ Chevy Chase

There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. ~ Steve Coogan

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena. ~ Jenny Eclair

Doing comedy is one of the best gifts in life. ~ Mallory Jansen

I think serious situations actually make for the best kind of belly laughs. But they're also the hardest to convert into comedy at the outset. ~ Mike Birbiglia

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

It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something. ~ Chris Rock

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats. ~ Paul Mooney

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out. ~ Brion James

Cartoon violence is something very vivid and dark but made palatable for children in a fun way. That's the kind of comedy I do - I try to take subjects that might seem deep and make them as silly as possible. ~ Michael Che

It's fun because I really do love meeting new people. Comedy can be so different from show to show and from writer to writer and actor to actor. People don't set out to make a bad show. ~ Fiona Gubelmann

If I'm doing comedy, I try to improvise a lot. Even if they don't use it, it helps me loosen up and figure out the character. ~ Zach Woods

My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag. ~ Doug Stanhope

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

When men were ready to marry, look out.
Their evolution busted out all over. They nabbed the closest female hanging out near their caves, anyone who looked like she would clean his woolly mammoth tunics down by the creek, keep his fires burning, bear his children, and tote his brood around on a fur-clad hip. ~ Gale Martin

People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal. ~ Mike Birbiglia

Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world. ~ M.J. McGuire

Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing. ~ Felipe Esparza

They're always going, don't deal with terrorists. Let's deal with them. What's Allah offering you boys, 100 virgins? We'll give you 50 slags. ~ Frankie Boyle

...teaching is, after all, a form of show business. ~ Steve Martin

Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it. ~ Criss Jami

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy. ~ Gene Kelly

The Wolf snarled, tensing his muscles, as if he wished he could climb the tree after the feline. "One day I will catch you on the ground, cat," he said through bared teeth. "And you won't even know I'm there until I tear your head off." "You have been saying that since before humans had fire, dog," Grimalkin replied, completely undisturbed. "You'll have to forgive me if I don't hold my breath."
- The Big Bad Wolf and Grimalkin ~ Julie Kagawa

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready. ~ Henny Youngman

Just for fun, I'm really goofy and I would love to do some stupid comedy. I'm talking, like, crazy, out there, Will Ferrell type of thing. I love it; I think those movies are so funny. ~ Jaimie Alexander

Nothing like a great comedy. I love to laugh! ~ Drew Sidora

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides

I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy. ~ Nadia Giosia

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. ~ James Thurber

I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD. ~ Vir Das

Comedy can be, especially in a writer's room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. It's not a nurturing place. It's not like a lot of women are going to say, I can't wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writer's room until 2 or 3 a.m. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Growing up with Bronx Irish parents during an era of protests against the status quo, I was especially committed to doing the opposite of what I was told to do. Forty-four years later, I am left with only one means of making a living: comedy. ~ Greg Fitzsimmons

That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may convey all the instruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied, because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition, and approaches nearer than either to the appearance of life, by shewing how great machinations and slender designs may promote or obviate one another, and the high and the low co-operate in the general system by unavoidable concatenation. ~ Samuel Johnson

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment. ~ Danny Wallace

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first. ~ David Walliams

The old Janey only drank cheap wine and light beer. The new Janey is classy, prefers cocktails, and even drinks alone. ~ J.C. Patrick

Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked ~ G.K. Chesterton