Quotes About Humor

In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are, or who anyone else is, either. Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.

It's like this for all of us initially. We can contact our inner strength, our natural openness, for short periods before getting swept away. And this is excellent, heroic, a huge step in interrupting and weakening our ancient habits. If we keep a sense of humor and stay with it for the long haul, the ability to be present just naturally evolves. Gradually we lose our appetite for biting the hook. We lose our appetite for aggression. If

The point is that you begin where you are, you see what a child you are, and you don't criticize that. You begin to explore, with a lot of humor and generosity toward yourself, all the places where you cling, and every time you cling, you realize, "Ah!

egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness, as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness

Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?

You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.

Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.

Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.