Quotes About Humor

His Holiness the Abbot is shitting in the withered fields

Things don't like me. Furniture purposely sticks out its leg for me. A polished corner once literally bit me. My blanket and I have always had a complicated relationship. Soup served to me never cools. Any little thing—a coin or a cuff link—that falls off the table usually rolls away under furniture that's hard to move. I crawl across the floor and lifting my head I see the sideboard laughing.)

Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

Getting anything out of my husband is like trying to squeeze water out when you're stoned.

he] had become the bloke in the joke: the last man on earth

It is the most ridiculous country in the world, Bangladesh. It is God's idea of a really good wheeze, his stab at black comedy.

The shit is not the shit, he repeated solemnly, the pigeon is the shit.

But why do they always have to be laughing and making a song-and-dance about everything? I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

He peered down the hallway at the shadowy form of Joyce through the glass and scratched his testicles, sadly.

So Ryan was red as a beetroot. And Clara was black as yer boot

Ten ?wiat nie zginie od bomby atomowej, jak prorokuj? gazety, ale umrze ze ?miechu, ze strywalizowania, z obracania wszystkiego w ?art, na domiar z?ego w kiepski ?art.

Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

I've seen runnin' molasses that was quicker 'n him.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.

It was funny if you looked at it right quick, but it got pitiful if you thought about it awhile.

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear.

There was some more good-natured laughter at the expense of women.

they made a lot of laughter out of nothing.

Ah jus lak uh chicken. Chicken drink water, but he don't pee-pee.

I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

I spend a lot of time on social media and people ask me if the abuse I get is upsetting, but working in comedy has built up my skin - I'm used to hecklers.