Quotes About Humor

There aren't enough words in the English language to express how badly I stink at sports.

The newsletter's editor, Ted Cogswell, illustrated an issue with pictures of naked women—intended, he said, as a joke. Suzy Charnas informed him that this kind of "joke" was aggression disguised as humor.

Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.

Jesus," my father mumbled whenever he opened the refrigerator and found health-food peanut butter, brown salt-free bread, and a jar of thriving alfalfa seeds, "the world could end tomorrow and we'd have eaten a last meal of this stuff.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

Oh all the time when Victoria Wood and I did our series. There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

Es gibt einen warmherzigen und sanften Spott, der auf engster Vertrautheit beruht, einer, die man nicht einzugestehen hat - einen Spott, der aus nichts anderem besteht als dem Bedürfnis, ein Übermaß an Sympathie aufzulösen.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

The best jokes are uncalled-for.

mi maligna manera de entender el mundo me ayudaba a reirme por lo bajo...

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Menos mal que ni vos ni yo somos cursis, porque de aquí salía uno muerto y el otro con las esposas puestas.

Kinder sollen nur reden, wenn die Hühner pissen.

Yo tengo un reloj con menos vida, con menos casa y menos acostarme, yo soy un cronopio desdichado y húmedo».

pese a lo cual conservo algún sentido del humor y especialmente una notable capacidad de abstracción, es decir, que si no me gusta un tipo lo borro del mapa con sólo decidirlo

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Well, I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech.

Is that a dangler in your memo or are you just glad to see me?

This chapter is dedicated to those other delights of punctuation--exquisite little squiggles, those most delightful dots and dashes, and other tragically under-appreciated tiny tidbits! Nah. I'm just yankin' your chain.

You must now--before God, Jon Stewart, and whoever's sleeping next to you (even if these entities are one and the same)--make a solemn oath.

Amateur grammar snobs are a lot like amateur gynecologists—they're everywhere, they're all too eager to offer their services, and they're anything but gentle.

Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.