Comedy quotes
Welcome to our collection of hilarious and light-hearted Comedy quotes! Laughter is truly the best medicine, and we have curated a selection of quotes that are guaranteed to tickle your funny bone. Whether you're looking to brighten your day, share a good laugh with friends, or simply embrace the joy that comedy brings, you've come to the right place.
Within this category, you'll find an array of quotes from some of the greatest comedians of all time. From classic one-liners to witty observations about life, love, and everything in between, our collection is sure to bring a smile to your face. So sit back, relax, and get ready for some side-splitting laughter!
Humor knows no boundaries, and our Comedy quotes encompass a wide range of comedic genres. Whether you enjoy slapstick, satire, or clever wordplay, there's something here for everyone. Our selection includes quotes from sitcoms, stand-up specials, funny movies, and even humorous writers.
So, whether you're in need of a good chuckle or simply want to embrace the joy of comedic genius, browse through our collection of Comedy quotes and let the laughter begin. Laughter is contagious, so don't forget to share your favorite quotes with your friends and family to spread the joy and brighten their day!
Sofia Vergara
— ActressAccents are funny. It sets me apart from the other girls doing comedy. It gives me more—how do you say?—pop-oo-laaarrrity.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorI get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Tommy Smothers
— ComedianI heard there were two local guys in town doing songs and comedy so I thought I'd take a look....they took my breath away...with their music, comedy, and showmanship.... 'Dakaboom'.. is the genuine article! Two voices in perfect harmony, and with joyful abandon and humor, they take you on a magical, musical, modern day vaudeville tour!! Ben McLain and Paul Peglar are headed for stardom. They are unique, they are original, and they are known as 'Dakaboom.' Don't miss 'em 'cause you're in for a treat!
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsA despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
Stan Lee
— Comic Book Icon & Creator of Marvel HeroesIn the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.
Daniel Craig
— Iconic James Bond ActorDoing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college, I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn't performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostI'm having a ball. I just walk in, make some funnies and walk out, no pressure.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanI totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostI say God is kind. So many people want to do what I do [comedy] for a living, and so he didn't have to choose me. So I don't take all the credit, but I do know that I love what I do, and I see it as a gift.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorHorror is like comedy. Woody Allen's comedy is going to be very different from Ben Stiller's comedy which is going to be different from Adam Sandler's comedy which is going to be different from Judd Apatow's comedy. They're all comedy, but they're all very different types and you can enjoy all of them. Horror is the same way.
Aarti Mann
— American ActressEvery sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
— American actor, producer, retired professional wrestler and former American football and Canadian football playerMy 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.
Sofia Vergara
— ActressI like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.
Tommy Smothers
— ComedianProfessor Irwin Corey had some of the best timing in the world, and that is something you can't steal. He talked nonsense, not punch-lines, per se. It was a great performance thing he did and his timing was impeccable. Pat Paulsen was a master of comedy too. The Smothers Brothers' strength was not in the content, but how it was said. We had a couple of our albums, including the Purple Onion album, translated in script form. It didn't work at all. It is no wonder that writers had a hard time writing for the Smothers Brothers, because they wrote impressions, but there was something else.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostOne thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostWe're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerInappropriate behavior makes me laugh.
Reba McEntire
— American country music singer, actress and businesswomanMama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostPeople who can make you laugh can make you cry.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorA comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostI was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerThat's what I think works the best, and what I think makes the best comedy - something that's completely committed and more approached as an acting exercise, as opposed to being worried about whether to be funny or not. The comedy comes from the context.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI like grown up comedy.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostWith the Tonys it's a little tricky because a lot of the funnier jokes are more insider, so people watching at home may not get a Julie Taymor reference the way that New Yorkers would. So you have to figure out what comedy plays to a large audience and still respect the individuals who are there.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostI take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
Neil Patrick Harris
— American actor, singer, writer, producer, and television hostI want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI think people don't understand that comedy is an outlet for me. Comedy allows me to get outside of myself, and exercise this thing that is still kind of scary to me.
Aisha Tyler
— American actress, comedian, director, and talk show hostComedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerWhen I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerWhen I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerMolly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerA lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI love watching people be totally committed in a very real way to stupid situations. I find it's not so much trying to be funny, it's trying to be real in a messed up context. That's comedy to me.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI've got no dark secrets, I wasn't beaten up, my parents were kind to me and there was a low crime rate where we lived. Maybe that's where the comedy comes from, as some sort of reaction to the safe, boring suburbs.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI don't even consider myself an impressionist, really.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerWhen you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerIt would be great to be able to follow in the footsteps of Bill Murray. I really respect his ability as a comedian, obviously, but even more so as an actor.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerHandling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerJames Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerAll you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerIn the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerSaturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI'd love to become like Bill Murray, who was so funny on 'Saturday Night Live' and has gone on to do some of the landmark comedies people like. And then to add this whole other phase to his career with 'Lost in Translation' and 'Rushmore.' I always felt to be able to have something similar to that would be great.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerI will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.