Quotes About Humor

An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.

Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

Hello, I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. By true I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies and in the end, isn't that the truth? The answer is no.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

I'm not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that's what makes my comedy different.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

I enjoy reality as much as the next man. It's just that in my case, fortunately, reality includes a good stiff belt every now and then.