Quotes About Humor

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.

Movies with interfering in-laws and kids are often presented as comic, the ridicule bringing welcome relief to beleaguered married folks suffering offscreen at the hands of relatives.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.

The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door.

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".