Quotes About Humor

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

When she was chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, Daisy Goodwin wrote a controversial essay lamenting the 'unrelenting grimness' of so many novels and pointing out that 'generally great fiction contains light and shade'---not only misery but joy and humor. 'It is time for publishers to stop treating literary fiction as the novelistic equivalent of cod-liver oil: if it's nasty it must be good for you.

Everything had become so Twilight only without the sparklies.

Who was Greg and why was he biting Nina? In fact, how did he get close enough to Nina in order to bite her before she bit him first?

Is anyone ever really the same after being pushed through an opening the size of a donut hole only to end up wearing a fez?

So he was good-looking and he had a great set of thighs. Chickens had nice thighs, too.

Yeah, but that didn't mean he didn't like fistfuls of blondeness with legs longer than a Celine Dion note, now, did it?

Steeple, people, banana-fana-fo-feeple. What the fuck ever. If you don't loosen up, lady, I'll drop your ass on it.

What's your doggie name, honey?" "Mom…" "Oh, c'mon, kiddo—we'll look back on this someday and laugh together. Promise. Now cough it up. We'll laugh for you until you're ready to see the funny." He couldn't help but smile. It was pretty funny if you looked at it from the other side. "Fluffy.

The Lord says to forgive is devine. -The Lord didn't go to high school with you.

You named a dog the size of Bigfoot Fluffy?

It was like finding a long-lost brother who farts in the same key.

it was like finding a brother who farts in key.

I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge.

Along with the usual secular values (such as appropriate tolerance/intolerance, morality, critical thinking, appreciation for reason and science), don't forget to impart social graces, playfulness, and humor. Those go far in our short existences.

You are -" she stopped fanning long enough to push the glasses up her nose - "Sprout Bradford?" I thought it was a little pretentious to say "You are Sprout Bradford?" instead of "Are you Sprout Bradford?" so I said, "I are Sprout Bradford!" in my best half-hick, half-retard voice.

New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock schollar blow off his legs and then watch him holler...

It's no laughing matter when you have to fight with the roaches to see who gets the cornflakes.

A curious scene, this low-key festivity just a day after Ma has died, but on the other hand people have to eat, life goes on. They'll be drinking and making bawdy jokes soon after you go too.

He laughs with wise, percolated mirth

The hardest thing in the world is making a kid happy after he's been circumcised.

And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.

christ alive we're abit of a mess arent we?

I think someone's about to have a really bad chair day.