Humor Quotes

The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd.

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.