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Quotes About Humor

I wrote one single joke for Don Adams. Jonathan Winters needed nothing from anyone; he was simply a genius.
~ Woody Allen
I think I can safely say I'm the only American stand-up comic who played the Eiffel Tower.
~ Woody Allen
Czy to dlatego przespaÅ'aÅ› siÄ™ ze swoim terapeutÄ…? - To byÅ'a terapia. WedÅ'ug Freuda seks jest królewskim goÅ›ciÅ"cem do nieÅ›wiadomoÅ›ci. -Freud mówiÅ', ?e marzenia senne sÄ… drogÄ… do nieÅ›wiadomoÅ›ci. - Seks, sny - masz zamiar znowu siÄ™ mnie czepia??
~ Woody Allen
Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?
~ Woody Allen
Roth was a much deeper, more serious man than me in addition to being very funny. Sometimes we'd show up together in some article on Judaism or Jewish humor, but he approached issues from a thoughtful, engaging point of view. I was only interested as far as they gave me good comedy material. He was a thinker, a genuine intellectual.
~ Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
~ Woody Allen
Wurm has learned to live with his wife's peccadillos, but only because he does not know what peccadillos are as she has convinced him they're Mexican food.
~ Woody Allen
Vesmír je pouhou prchavou pÃ…â"¢edstavou v Boží mysli - pÄ›knÄ› nepÃ…â"¢íjemné pomyÅ¡lení, zvláÅ¡tÄ› když ?lovÄ›k právÄ› složil zálohu na byt. V??ná nicota nevadí, pokud jste na to oble?eni. Kdyby jen Dionýsos z?stal naživu! Kam by se chodil najíst? Nejen, že neexistuje žádný B?h, ale zkuste sehnat o víkendu instalatéra.
~ Woody Allen
I had a myocardial infarction that registered at the oceanography lab in Tokyo.
~ Woody Allen
Wurm, who had been madly in love with Nurse Waxtrap, winds up with her identical twin so considers it a wash.
~ Woody Allen
Caesar and The Honeymooners—two very different great comedians, Sid and Jackie Gleason.
~ Woody Allen
Sid had a cerebral band of writers, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Mike Stuart, Shelly Keller, Neil Simon, not to mention contributors like Carl Reiner, Howie Morris, and Sid himself.
~ Woody Allen
If Woody Allen can lose those Mort Sahl mannerisms, he could be a very funny comedian." I wanted to do what he did, I wanted to be like him, I wanted to be him. And that's the problem. You have to be him to get that effect. It wasn't the brilliant jokes, which
~ Woody Allen
The movie came together easily with the exception of the music. I began by using Stravinsky, but the atonality rendered everything unfunny. The minute we switched to Prokofiev, the film came alive.
~ Woody Allen
Are you alone? - Of course. - I thought I heard voices. - I was praying. - I heard two voices. - Oh, well, I do both parts. --Love and Death screenplay
~ Unknown
Don't go away! Have a taste of old Monkey's rod!
~ Wu Cheng'en
Quieres reírte de mí? Cuando alguien me decía: Thank you, yo contestaba: Of nothing.
~ Xavier Velasco
lo único que me inspiran sus canciones melosas son unas ganas locas de mearles la guitarra.
~ Xavier Velasco
Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
~ Yann Martel
I believed him. (Ravi was a merciless teaser. The first time he called Mamaji "Mr. Fish" to my face I left a banana peel in his bed.)
~ Yann Martel
Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.
~ Christopher Heyerdahl
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Eric me había recomendado que iniciara mi viaje a la prehistoria yendo a Virginia para aprender bajo la tutela de Ken Mierke, un fisiólogo del ejercicio además de triatleta campeón mundial, a quien su distrofia muscular obligaba a reducir al mínimo, a la esencia misma, su estilo de correr. «Soy la prueba viviente del sentido del humor de Dios —le gusta decir a Ken—.
~ Christopher McDougall
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.
~ Christopher Meloni