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Quotes About Humor

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
~ Sid Caesar
If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.
~ Sid Caesar
There's humor in the little things that people did. If you showed them how they looked when they did what they did, people would laugh.
~ Sid Caesar
Joy was not the raw material of humor . . . The dark source was sorrow.
~ Sid Fleischman
He does possess a penetrating sense of humour. At the end of one briefing in Mexico, when Nigel Mansell had let the world know that he was suffering seriously from uncontrollable diarrhoea and needed to interrupt practice several times on this account, Prost drily asked Roland Bruynseraede, 'If Nigel has to come in during the race will you show a brown flag?
~ Sid Watkins
English is a funny language..... De(a)dication can lead you to all the success in Life
~ Siddharth Astir
Oh, darling," Niall purred. "You know I'm too shy to wear those little bitty suits." "You would do it for me, though, wouldn't you?" I made my eyes huge and pushed out my lower lip. If I didn't already sleep with a gun under my pillow and a knife under the mattress, I sure as hell would have to now. Niall would try to kill me. I had no doubt.
~ Silvia Violet
I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.
~ Simon Pegg
I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.
~ Simon Pegg
You're the only man I know who makes the sign of the cross when confronted with broccoli.
~ Simon R. Green
lot of them were wearing T-shirts under their lab coats, bearing the legend I Blow Things Up, Therefore I Am, Even If Someone Else Suddenly Isn't.
~ Simon R. Green
Happy, you really are a first-class gloomy bugger," JC said affectionately. "You could gloom for the Olympics, and still take a Bronze in existential paranoia." Everyone has to be good at something," said Happy smiling in spite of himself.
~ Simon R. Green
They're currently sulking, by the way, and comforting themselves by sending abusive e-mails to Bill Gates.
~ Simon R. Green
A vampire was drinking a bloody Mary, and from the look on her face Mary was really getting into it.
~ Simon R. Green
Would you really have...?" said Julien. "Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures." "But you are one!" "I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.
~ Simon R. Green
It's not your uncle Harvey again, is it?" I said. "The one who thinks he's a giant rabbit?
~ Simon R. Green
The mug had World's Best Secret Agent on one side and Please Don't Tell Anyone on the other. My
~ Simon R. Green
Sometimes humour is all we have to say the things that can't be said.
~ Simon R. Green
You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.
~ Simon R. Green
Who's got my Jaffa Cakes? You know I can't function without Jaffa Cakes.
~ Simon R. Green
Well, that's splendid!" Mr. Goat said. "As long as we preserve our friendship—that's the important thing." "Yes!" Olivia said. "Exactly!" There was a pause. "Can I kiss you?" Mr. Goat said. Olivia groaned. "I just want to be friends," she said firmly. "That's all." "I
~ Simon Rich
Before OkCupid profiles became mandated by the Galactic Government, the only way to find a mate was to self-induce brain damage and beg strangers for sex in public. The fact that anyone ever achieved sexual congress during these dark times is a remarkable testament to man's will to survive.
~ Simon Rich
He handed her a tissue, but she didn't know what a tissue was, so she put it in her mouth and tried to eat it.
~ Simon Rich
Saw you by the Dumpster, eating a pile of what appeared to be human vomit. You seemed like someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. Not sure if you're male or female, but either way I'd love to smell your genitals. Let me know if you're intrigued.
~ Simon Rich