Quotes About Humor

Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For your information,' I said from the doorway, as both Dad and Lester jerked to attention, 'I am about as sexually active as a bag of spinach, and if you want to keep me on the porch and not out in the park somewhere behind the bushes, you'll keep the stupid porch light off when I come home with a boy.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

there was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim." He

A comedian is someone who tells the truth. Truth is the set of all jokes told by all comedians in the world.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue.

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

A harmadik napon partra szállt a félkegyelm?, pórázon vezetett macskájával. Alighogy megérkezett a vásártérre, a macska azon nyomban öldösni kezdte az egereket. Megölt közülük tízet, húszat, százat, igazi vérfürd?t rendezett. (…) 152. oldal, Nemtudomki, nemtudommi avagy a jó tanácsot adó asszony

I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: 'Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.' After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.

When I was a kid we'd go and visit my grandmother, and my dad is one of eight so they'd all be sitting there updating everyone on the good things but also on the fact that so and so had cancer or had lost their job, and people would make jokes.

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

My parents are cartoons. When they come up and visit, they're hilarious. My mother somehow finds a way to get in the way of everything.

When I visited Chechnya, I was taken aback at first because people would regularly make jokes about kidnapping me.

One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.

I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.

'Ex-Boyfriend' is a really funny story that is that much funnier when you have visuals attached to it as opposed to just hearing it. I couldn't let a song like that go un-videoed.

Commingling keenly felt emotion, madcap humor, and retina-bursting visuals, 'Missing Link' is a kaleidoscopic cinematic experience unlike any other.