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Quotes About Humor

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
~ Victor Borge
It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.
~ Chris Rock
Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.
~ Dakota Fanning
My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
~ Les Dawson
My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.
~ Les Dawson
My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.
~ Les Dawson
I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!
~ Eoin Colfer
My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'
~ Bob Monkhouse
Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's house.
~ David Letterman
I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.
~ Phyllis Diller
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
~ Mel Brooks
The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.
~ Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother
~ Rodney Dangerfield
My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."
~ Kelly Carlin-McCall
My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.
~ Rita Rudner
"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.
~ Bill Cosby
My mother was always the one with the dark, really filthy sense of humor. She was a vulgar woman. She used to tell me to do comedy before I even tried it. She was always up for any gag.
~ Doug Stanhope
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
~ Jason Kilar
My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
~ Kevin Spacey
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
~ Ian Hislop
Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.
~ Peter Jurasik
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren't we going to run out of gas?' No there's plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I'm going to get some god-damed oranges!
~ Charles Bukowski
Oh my God — I'm turning into my mother!
~ Sarah
Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.
~ George Clooney