Quotes About Humor

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Caricature: putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

You encourage a comic man too much, and he gets silly.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

You can pretend to be serious, but you can't pretend to be witty.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

The best comedy is truthful. So if you say something in a way that is amusing, but is rooted in truth, you can get away with it.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.

Comedy's the ultimate pill that helps the really hard truths and hard facts go down, right?

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

I've always said, I thought the Sex Pistols was more Music Hall than anything else - because I think that really, more truths are said in humour than any other form.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

If you're feeling blue, lock yourself in a room, stand in front of a mirror, and dance - and laugh at yourself and be sexy. Dance the silliest and ugliest you've ever danced. Make fun of yourself and try to recover your sense of humor.