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Quotes About Humor

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
~ George Michael
"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
~ Unknown
Are you Polish? Okay, I'll talk slower.
~ Henny Youngman
Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.
~ Tracy Morgan
I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.
~ Rachel Dratch
A Polish guy locked his keys in the car. It took an hour to get his wife out.
~ Henny Youngman
Real racist jokes or sexist jokes aren't funny - not because they're offensive, but because they're not true. As soon as a joke is based on an untruth, it's not funny.
~ Ricky Gervais
I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.
~ Victoria Chang
I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.
~ Steven Wright
I've known Chevy Chase for so long, I actually knew him when he was funny!
~ Richard Belzer
If I had blood, I'd blush.
~ Henny Youngman
How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O
~ Henny Youngman
I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.
~ Steven Wright
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'
~ Larry David
Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.
~ Mira Grant, Feed
I had a tumor. But it was great.
~ David Rakoff
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
~ Topher Grace
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
~ Penn Jillette
Why is it that when you wipe up dust its called dusting but when you wipe up a spill its not called spilling? Just something to think about.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
~ Michael Caine
If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?
~ Casey Affleck
I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
~ Zooey Deschanel