Quotes About Humor

Bob Monkhouse, Galton and Simpson, Spike Milligan and I all started around the same time with an enormous advantage: working to an audience all of whom had shared an awful, common experience - the war.

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.

Being nice can be funny. A lot of my jokes are like, 'Let me take a bad situation and try to put the best spin on it.'

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.

We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we're just kind of all putting our own spin on it.

I think the big spin we were able to put on it was most hidden camera shows, the people that don't know they're on the show were the butt of the joke and they're kind of being made fun of and the big thing that we make different is that we're the butt of the jokes and the joke's always on us.

May 8th 1943. Deluge. The rain not only fell mainly on the plain in Spain; it also fell mainly on the back of the bloody neck, dripping down the spine into the socks where it came out of the lace-holes in the boots.

If you're an athlete and you completely focus on the body, you're missing other components. Similarly, if you're trying to broaden your mind but not also being attentive to your sense of humour and your spirit, then you're not going to grow and develop so fast.

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Caregivers need humor not only for the healing aspect but also to lift our spirits and inspire us to keep doing what we are doing.

I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.

Humor is a part of spirituality.

My dad was a poet. He saw the world through unique glasses, with simplicity, spirituality, and humor.

I'm a very spiritual person, and I believe in God and all that kind of stuff. So my perfect type of guy would be spiritually grounded, extremely respectful and funny because I love to laugh.

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Sometimes I find I'm wearing a divided, split brain in terms of drama and humor.

I came to London with a girl. We lived together and split up very quickly. I was on my own in London so started going to comedy clubs.

I think every girl needs a good lip split story, I have one. I fell onto my front door doorknob coming back from the mailbox, once.

In my senior year of high school, I was doing a dance with a bunch of friends for the talent show, and my pants split entirely in half. It was incredible.

I classify myself as a comedian, but I'm one of those comedians who also acts so that I can split the difference and feel insecure about both.

I can sing, I can act, my physical comedy is on point. I can do the splits.