Quotes About Humor

You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is just a noise.

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.

I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.

The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.

The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots.

The plural of spouse is spice.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

To laugh at cheap jests is as base as to pray to cheap gods.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Having a little pee in your pants had to be better than being dinner for some redneck.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

his sermons go on so long that some of the time you feel like begging, "Take me now, Jesus," 'bout halfway through 'em.

If I can laugh, I can live.

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary.

They have a kind of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby thing going on.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.

Well, I don't particularly like game shows. I mean, I think I did them well. I could do them, but it didn't mean I really liked them. I never watched any of the game shows that were on television at the time, like The Price Is Right, To Tell The Truth, all those shows. I think that also probably gave me an edge, because I never really copied much of what they did. I liked my shows--they made me laugh--but I didn't like anybody else's.