Quotes About Humor

Two unusual examples of the Gemini type in the field of letters are Dante and Bernard Shaw. Dante wrote his Inferno so that he could show in luminous verbiage all his enemies roasting in the pits of perdition. The Shavian humor has about it the bite of shallowness. It is not the deep laughter of the gods who understand all, but the shallow titillating laughter of mortals who understand not even themselves.

C'est sidérant ! Comment fais-tu pour lire autant et rester aussi con ? - Hé hé ! C'est là tout mon génie !

My favorite summary of the concept of defining your own responsibility for the problems of others was given in a joke, current several years ago. After being surrounded by 10,000 hostile Indians, the Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and remarked, "I guess this is it, Kimo Sabe. It looks like we have had it," whereupon Tonto, surveying the impending disaster, turned and replied, "What do you mean we, white man?

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.

The play was only six days away. Where would Arthur find a turkey? Arthur knew he could count on his family. "I'd love to be the turkey," said his father. "But I have a dentist appointment that I don't want to miss." "The world is full of turkeys," joked his mother. "You should be able to find one. " "I wouldn't be caught dead in that outfit!" said his sister, D.W.

In 1991, while talking with writer Ed Gross, Fred Freiberger summed up his agony over Star Trek with a joke, saying, "I thought the worst experience of my life was when I was shot down over Nazi Germany. A Jewish boy from the Bronx parachuted in to the middle of 80 million Nazis. Then I joined Star Trek. I was only in a prison camp for two years, but my travail with Star Trek has lasted 25 years ... and still counting.

Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you.

Humor can be like a coat of armor when reality takes a stab at you. I don't know who said that, but I know it's the truth.

I guess we can start at the end but it's really the middle. Let's just call it the really bad part. My second wife, Mishna, brought it to my attention that I had an anger problem. She didn't say it like that. What she said was, "I'm leaving." Then she took her vagina and left.

I think a lot of comedy comes from hypersensitivity, from being too vulnerable to deal with life and needing to preemptively protect yourself.

We're really not that different from monkeys. What's the difference? Pants? What's the difference between grunting and "Oh, email.

I always think about suicide because I find it relaxing.

Years ago I did a particularly angry set onstage. I talked about AIDS, the end of the world, and how silly and hopeless life was. A guy came up to me after the show and asked, "Why comedy?" That was all he said. I was dumbfounded.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Indeed, according to William of Malmesbury, one of them staged something of a counter-demonstration by dropping his trousers and farting loudly in the king's general direction.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.

She's got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy.

Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum.

As coisas de que falamos o mais das vezes em tom de gracejo são geralmente, ao contrário, as que incomodam, mas não queremos mostrá-lo, com talvez a esperança inconfessada de uma vantagem suplementar: de justamente a pessoa com quem conversamos, ouvindo-nos gracejar daquilo, pensar que não é verdade.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.

Winston Churchill lived into his nineties and said the only exercise he ever got was serving as a pallbearer for his friends who died while they were exercising.