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Quotes About Humor

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!
~ Tori Amos
I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that you can't say it on stage that same night.
~ W. Kamau Bell
Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.
~ Yogi Berra
I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever they want to do because it's animated and they're not limited by budget.
~ Zachary Levi
If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
~ Adam DeVine
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
~ Annie Lennox
I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad at singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm fortunate to know a lot of incredibly talented people, and they all want to be a penguin.
~ Bob Saget
A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.
~ Chilly Gonzales
Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.
~ Dana Gould
The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.
~ Dave Barry
Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.
~ David Spade
If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.
~ Doug Benson
At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.
~ Eric Idle
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known.
~ Fran Lebowitz
I always say to people if you want to see what Britain looks like, watch Gogglebox. It's brilliant and funny and warm and clever.
~ Grayson Perry
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
~ Ada Leverson
I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
~ Adam Carolla
My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.
~ Brian Posehn
President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.
~ David Letterman
It's just easier to make fun and cut down. It's kind of a way of life in America. If you can make people want to hear what you're going to say, it can be cruel and funny.
~ David Spade
I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.
~ Downtown Julie Brown
I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
~ Dustin Hoffman
Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck.
~ Eddie Heywood