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Quotes About Humor

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
~ Todd Barry
To me, the highest expression of life is art with jokes. It's very rarified, very difficult to accomplish if you want to be more than just funny, and more than just jokes about human gaseousness.
~ Neil Peart
Okay, first rule of this carpool. No breaking wind in my car. The only gas that Bernie Mac want to be smelling is unleaded.
~ Bernie Mac
We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, "I've decided I want to be cremated." I said, "Alright, get your coat."
~ Dave Spikey
Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering, do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?
~ David Letterman
Hillary Clinton could use one of these Apple Watches. She could hook it up to her secret email account. If you want to contact Hillary, she's at [email protected].
~ David Letterman
Everyone wants to look good in photographs, even us trolls who tell jokes.
~ Doug Benson
I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."
~ Henny Youngman
She sticks her tongue out at me and crosses her eyes. Not sure why that made me want to do her in the backseat, but to each his own, I guess.
~ J.A. Redmerski
Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.
~ Johnny Carson
I heard from my cat's lawyer today; my cat wants $12,000 a week for Tender Vittles.
~ Johnny Carson
Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.
~ Judah Friedlander
I like to laugh. I like to have a good time. I don't like to be so serious about things, so I would want a guy who would want to laugh and have a good time, too.
~ Kate Upton
Wraith held up his hands. "Chill, Gramps. I don't want to sit on your knee or anything.
~ Larissa Ione
If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
~ Mark Twain
Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
~ Mark Twain
I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.
~ Neil Peart
We... joked a little about presidential portraits. He [Bill Clinton] told me that he and Harrison Ford had been joking recently about how chins drop with age, and he didn't want to look that way.
~ Nelson Shanks
The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.
~ Ken Marino
One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!
~ Lance Burton
Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.
~ Megan Hilty
It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.
~ Patty Griffin
I love you, man. You rule! Thanks for the food. It touches me deep in my tender place. (Sway) I don't want to know nothing about your tender place, you freak. (Devyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.
~ Taran Killam