Comedy Quotes - Page 36

• I'm really happy that I've been able to make people laugh and distract them from their day to day bullshit at a comedy show or because they enjoyed one of my CDs or TV specials, but I don't know how many people have actually had life changing thoughts because of it.

  Joe Rogan

  Life Changing, Cds, Laughing

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The beautiful thing about podcasting is it's just talking. It can be funny, or it can be terrifying. It can be sweet. It can be obnoxious. It almost has no definitive form. In that sense it's one of the best ways to explore an idea, and certainly much less limiting than trying to express the same idea in stand up comedy. For some ideas stand up is best, but it's really, really nice to have podcasts as well.

  Joe Rogan

  Beautiful, Sweet, Nice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• The strength of comedy is I don't have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.

  Bo Burnham

  Ideas, People, Answers

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• If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there's a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

  Bo Burnham

  People, Facts, Surprise

  Source: www.craveonline.com

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• I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mistake, Thinking, Different

  "Leonardo Dicaprio: 'I Am A Lot Calmer Now'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 9, 2011.

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• When you see Charlie Chaplin, he stays funny. He doesn't become drama, and so what really seems to endure is comedy.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Drama, Chaplin, Endure

  Source: moviehole.net

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• I've made my evolutionary purpose and had children. I don't care if anybody likes me, I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to do a whole comedy show about swimming in the loathsomely cold waters of Maine.

  John Hodgman

  Children, Swimming, Water

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I don't care if I tell that story and John Roderick gets up afterward and yells, 'I hope you enjoyed the white privilege, mortality comedy of John Hodgman!' That's me!" I'm going to play a sad Handsome Family song at the end and I guarantee you everyone is going to love it because, sometimes, you need a grown man or woman to tell you what you like.

  John Hodgman

  Song, Men, Play

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

  Jim Jefferies

  Book, People, Comedian

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

  Jim Jefferies

  Acting, Age, Directors

  Source: www.portlandmercury.com

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• In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted "should I yay him or nay him?" pantywaist ever again.

  Emo Philips

  College, Play, Black

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a particular point other than to entertain people, I'm delivering comedy in a serious way.

  Andy Andrews

  People, Engagement, Way

  "Andy Andrews Interview: Modern Day Will Rogers Details His Latest Novel, 'The Noticer'". Interview with Melissa Parker, smashinginterviews.com. June 11, 2009.

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• When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

  Doc Brown

  Rapper, Firsts, Hello

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• I think I'm not uber into the comedy scene, but I love to laugh, especially in our business, where you're always front and center over an extremely, sometimes overly-critical live audience. I think it helps to laugh.

  John Cena

  Thinking, Uber, Laughing

  "CS Interview: WWE Superstar John Cena Slams Amy Schumer in Trainwreck". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. July 14, 2015.

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• I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

  Bernie Mac

  Writing, Athlete, Acting

  Source: moviehole.net

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• THE FACT THAT MY DAD IS A PREACHER HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING. HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T AGREE WITH SOME OF MY MATERIAL BUT THEN AGAIN THERE'S NO SIGN ON MY COMEDY EVENT THAT SAYS "REVIVAL HERE TONIGHT". IM SURE GOD HAS MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO THAN GO TO MY 8 OCLOCK OMAHA SHOW. THE SHOW IS THE SHOW AND CHURCH IS CHURCH.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Dad, Important, Church

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 11, 2014.

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• Comedy Central made me delete the Boston Marathon joke. I wasn't happy about it but, despite popular belief, I can occasionally be a team player.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Team, Player, Boston

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Writing, Wanted

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Football, Thinking, People

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• Seahawks beat Cardinals, 58-0. If Patriots beat Texans, 58-0, it will be first time in NFL history there were two 58-0 games in same week.

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Games, Nfl

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• If one official signals Falcons ball and Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson signals Seahawks ball, is it a jump ball?

  Norman Chad

  Funny, Balls, Signals

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• I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

  Bo Burnham

  Comedian, Watches, Materials

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• Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

  Bo Burnham

  Purpose, Strange, Function

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. December 19, 2013.

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• A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sex, Funeral, Tragedy

  Source: the-talks.com

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