Quotes About Humor

I saw what I thought was a donkey posing on the stairs but much to my surprise it was Kim Kardashian.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.

For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason.

I think everyone, including myself, was pretty surprised the first Freedom goal came from me. So when I think about that goal, all I can really do is laugh at the incredibility of it.

People are surprised I do comedy! And I'm like, 'Guys, that's all I have been doing. For, like, forever.'

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I'm kind of under the radar. Not a lot of people notice me. Which is surprising, because I'm so sexy. They're probably intimidated by my sexiness and crushability.

It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.

It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

At its best, alt comedy can be challenging, surprising, and innovative. And at its worst, alt comics think that being awkward.com/FAQS is a substitution for punchlines.

Humor connects us, especially in politics. It's a way of surprising one another with shared context and experience.

It's surprising how much hate mail I don't get.

Gertrude's Secret' is highly entertaining. Some of the monologues are very funny, some very surprising and some painful.

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

I think I was the only person in my experimental film class doing comedy. But my sense of humor and a lot of comedy that I love is quite surreal and strange, you know? You could argue that 'Monty Python' is experimental film. It just happens to be really funny.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

I've watched 'The Daily Show' forever. So being a part of it is surreal.

It bothers me when people say 'shock comic' or 'gross-out' because that was only one type of comedy I did. There was prank comedy. Man-on-the-street-reaction comedy. Visually surreal comedy. But you do something shocking, and that becomes your label.