Quotes About Humor

Se l'umorismo serve a rendere meno triste la vita, perché non dovrebbe servire a rendere meno triste la morte?

said Mrs Bradley, looking like a benevolent alligator and then suddenly screeching like a slightly demented macaw.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Speaking was temporarily beyond him, what with the testicular trauma and ass-stabbing.

You're fond, I imagine of your right eye? I mean, you've gone to the trouble of putting make up on it.

Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body's dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough and that pops out) against which the nuances of the victim's personality count for nothing has in it one of the roots of comedy—the spirit's subservience to the flesh. You can cut a head off and shove it in a bag, stick it on a pole, play volleyball or footie with it. Hilarious, among other things.

Comedy, of course, lives for serious moments.

God being dead, irony still rollickingly alive...

Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

If someone called me a lesbian—in those days all single feminists were assumed to be lesbians—I learned just to say, "Thank you." It disclosed nothing, confused the accuser, conveyed solidarity with women who were lesbians, and made the audience laugh.

Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181

I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.

Later, when Tina Fey was head writer and star of Saturday Night Live, she could still say, "Only in comedy does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity.

Try to stay away from places where you're not allowed to laugh, including religious ones. The absence of laughter is a giveaway that the religion in question is more political than spiritual, more about a hierarchy with God at the top than about godliness in all living things.

probably because the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.

the power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy. Polls

that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.