Quotes About Humor

Have you seen their teeny beards? I had more hair when I was born!

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

Chaplin you got to go with. Chaplin is a man whose talents is such that you have to gamble. First off, comedy is his backyard. He's a genius, a cinematic genius. A comedic talent without peer.

Louis Johnson still don't really believe I can read, which might be why he keep showing me grocery list upside down and saying it's a classified document.

Si es irlandés, te hará reír mucho y hasta las mayores puercadas te parecerán muy sexi. Pero cuanto más rato te quedes, más beberá él, y cuanto más beba, en fin, por cada uno de los siete días siguientes tendrás un monstruo distinto.

Weeper stare at me hard then laugh. Nothing like a Weeper laugh, it start like a wheeze then somewhere, and you never know where, it explode into the biggest thing in the room. Who teach this little black man that he can laugh so?

Y dijo: ¿sabes por qué me llaman Chistoso? Porque nunca estoy pa bromas.

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

Humor helps ease the tension of race and the differences in society. If there wasn't comedy I don't know if Obama could have ever become president.

There are so many things to talk about between black people, Hispanic people, white people, gay people, men, women, it's all based on fear. We all have fears, this thing that stops us from embracing as we are one. We are never going to be one. People are messed up, but humor lets us see how ignorant we can be.

Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.

Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

If you could cross a lion and a monkey, that's what I'd be, because monkeys are funny and lions are strong.

As my husband quipped, "If orgasm was the magic bullet, porn addicts would be the healthiest people on the planet.

I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

There is a story of a man on all fours under a street lamp, searching for something. A policeman passing by asked what he was doing. "Looking for my car keys," replied the man, who appeared slightly drunk. "Did you drop them here?" inquired the officer. "No," answered the man, "I dropped them in the alley." Seeing the policeman's baffled expression, the man hastened to explain, "But the light is much better here.

In his book How to Make Yourself Miserable, Dan Greenburg demonstrates through humor the insidious power that comparative thinking can exert over us. He suggests that if readers have a sincere desire to make life miserable for themselves, they might learn to compare themselves to other people.

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.

Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.

He was muttering now and I could barely make out his words. "I'm going to die without ever feeling a woman's tits." "Go ahead," I said. It was about time I used the power of my chichis for good and not for evil.

Lily, the girl who'd talked back to the jock, said, "I want to get as far away from my parents as possible. We're like potassium and water." The other kids laughed and I said, "Huh?" "If potassium comes into contact with water, it instantly combusts," Lily said slowly so if she was talking to a child.

Jane, this young man is Jacob, my oldest son. It's no secret that a headmistress's biggest challenge is her family. Jacob, say hello to Jane." "Hello to Jane," he parroted, pulling out the pockets of his shorts in a silly curtsey. I couldn't decide if it was the dumbest thing I'd ever seen, or the funniest, so I stared back at him.