Quotes About Humor

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.

I do a joke in my stand-up where I say I'm a Christian, but I'm not a Christian comedian. I think that's definitely how I see my acting. I'm an actor who happens to be a Christian.

I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.

I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.

'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

I once did a flip-flop joke in San Diego, and I got booed... but it's all in good fun.

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'

I start with the joke line and write backward.

I thought conceptual art was a joke.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.

Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that.

We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt.

I like to write a joke without any fat on it. The shorter the better. I cater for people with ADD, basically.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.