Quotes About Humor

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

How do you manage for money?' I asked. I was given two simultaneous replies of 'We get by' from Ian and 'Don't ask' from Neil. I favoured Ian's reply because it had less-sinister connotations. 'Don't ask' left open the possibility that they raised funds by selling hitch-hikers into slavery. I changed the subject.

It had been done, the fridge had surfed, and what is more I had photographic evidence, provided I didn't screw up with the film again.

I'm against the death penalty. I believe that it is a mistake to show that killing people is wrong by killing people. However I'm not against the random killing of people who snore.

Terrific idea. Two days of advice on how to cope with married life from a body of people who have never been married, and don't indulge in any sexual activity. (Now don't scoff - it's true, they don't.)

Seven characters are too many for a ten-minute play. It'll be twenty minutes long! Fuck it. One of them is dead and the others can all talk fast.

Purple? Boy, what kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color up there is mauve.

Bob's Nobs.

No doubt about it! I gotta get a new ass!

Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

Whenever anyone tells me that history's boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days.

You're an idiot," Snufkin said. "Or still worse, you're a story spoiler.

Listen," said the Hemulen. "I was born bald on top and really I get along very well.

Silloin he taas nauroivat ja heidän mielestään oli tavattoman hullunkurista, että hemuli oli saanut koko elämänsä ajan tehdä sellaista, mikä ei ollut hänestä hauskaa. Ja vain sen takia, ettei voinut sanoa vastaan.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way." Incredulous eyes met his own. "You like your potatoes burned?" Ah, so he'd been right about that. If he could still recognize what it was she'd cooked, then surely he could eat it.

Sometimes this poem tells itself nothing matters, All's a joke. Relax, it says, everything's Taken care of. (A poem can lie.)

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.