Quotes About Humor

Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when he jumped up, his head hit the switch.

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

Private Perkins is a funny little codger.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

Everybody funny, now you funny too.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.

Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.

I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.