Quotes About Humor

Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.

Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.

In all the classic comedies of the old silent movies, the pratfall always got the biggest lauch. Even more than a pie in the face.

I have done 'Gutar-Gu,' which was a silent comedy show.

Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

I'm always trying to play pranks on people and doing silliness, singing extremely badly and extremely loudly on set.

I think that we all enjoy silliness to varying degrees but I think everyone can enjoy a relatable thing if it is expressed in a funny way.

It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

I don't want to take myself too seriously, thinking that I'm always having to be this cathartic, intense and deep person, because I certainly enjoy silliness.

The amount of silliness that happens to me is insane.

One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

When people write comedy from neutrality, it just gets kind of silly.

You can get away with a lot as long as it has a silly edge to it.

Comedy came early. I knew when I was a kid that I was silly, and I knew that I liked people who were funny, but I don't think I knew I was funny. I didn't really think about it.

Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.

A lot of people don't know that I'm really a silly guy. I don't take anything seriously. It takes a lot of energy for me to take something seriously.