Quotes About Humor

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

There's a side that I want to do just like really retarded arty films … like parody, pretentious art films that kind of are supposed to have some deep meaning.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

What are you doing with the child?" I inquired cautiously. "I'm teachin' young James here the fine art of not pissing on his feet," he explained.

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.

For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.