Quotes About Humor

Sue Townsend

Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball said that her daughter was dropped on her head as a child and has been "a bit queer" ever since.

I asked her about my Family Allowance today, she laughed and said she used it for buying gin and cigarettes.

Sex with the gorilla went on a bit, but once he'd stumbled over my clitoris we both had good times.

Sir Bumbuggerer

Why didn't you say something sooner! I said He wasn't the only one disgusted. This is my first time on a horse. Really? Blaec said dryly, I couldn't tell. Oh just pretend its my son you're riding.

What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.

Oh, God, oh, God. A sense of humor. She'd thought the hardly-even-a-hint she'd caught of it a while back had been a one-off thing, but that was a joke he'd just made. An honest-to-God joke! She wanted to have his baby.

Keep yourself healthy, my butt. Next you'll be flipping them all nasty one-handed gestures and telling me its an AMA approved method of controlling your blood pressure.

Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.

This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.

yes, I have slept with the wrong men, and never with the wrong dog.

In space … no one can hear your bad jokes.

From the age of ten I was a full blown fuzz ball to the point that my so-called friends called me 'Hairy McLary From Donaldson's Dairy.'

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.

My humour has always come from anger, but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.

I have no desire to get on a soapbox or be preachy. I don't think comedy needs to be 'brave' or 'important.'

If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about getting on their soapbox and complaining.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.