Quotes About Humor

C: What do you get when a giant sneezes? Out of the way. - Marigold

I've been so ridiculous all my life that a little bit more or a little bit less hardly matters now.

There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

If there was an elephant in the supermarket, she'd either not see it at all, or call it Mrs Jones and talk about fishcakes.

Of course people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things, so there's no need to take it personally.

Melanie,' I plucked up courage to ask at last, 'why do you have such a funny name?' She blushed. 'When I was born I looked like a melon.' 'Don't worry,' I reassured her, 'you don't any more.

So, Ryan, back to my Economy model. In motor-vehicle parlance, she's the cloth-seats and plastic-steering-wheel version. But she gets you from A to B. This model comes only in white. My sister-in-law's a lovely black woman from Jamaica and she said to me, she said, Ron! Don't you dare do an Economy black woman. And I love women, I do, and I thought, yeah, show respect. Also, Bridget would knock the shit out of me.

Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.' (Queen Fantasque)

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy, Mom told me. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.

Don't you make fun of me or my children! Some babies are premature. Mine were all postmature. That's why they're so smart. Their brains had longer to develop.

What struck me most was his crooked grin, like he saw the world in his own special way and got a kick out of it.

Mom waved at the crowd. "You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you," she said. With our garbage-bag-taped window, our roped-down hood, and the art supplies tied to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies. The thought gave her a fit of the giggles.

Snot locker was the funniest name I'd ever heard for a nose.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy," Mom told me. "You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

My daddy is nothing like your daddy! I shouted. When my daddy passes out, he never pisses himself!

You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's a second nature with me—and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

I feel that the work that I have done in the comedy arena, is priceless in terms of what I learned, timing, everything that these incredibly talented performers were generous enough in teaching me.

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.