Quotes About Humor

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

In jest, there is truth.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

I crack jokes and do silly things not so that people laugh on me but because of me.

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

Sarcasm is the new staircase to stardom.

Mary, ' said her mother. 'We don't like sarcasm ' 'You mightn't like it, ' said Mary. 'But I love it.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan

What is your type?"I shrugged. "Non-existent.

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Remember, whoever is funny is king.

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

Humor is the truth wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

Actually being funny is mostly telling the truth about things.

There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.

Just like you silly bums, I have a personal sky god. I bow to him, as you do to your airy-fairy sod. He prefers I call him Mr. NOT.

I Take Life Very Seriously: One Joke At A Time.