Quotes About Humor

All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

I can't not put humor in a book.

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far greater

Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.

Don't take life seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.

But I have no sense of humor and not enough courage to be cynical.

That's not funny or cute!

Lo que ocurre es que la gente no tolera el humor, lo nuevo y lo grande. Es preciso estar dotado de grandeza para no meter al artista creador dentro de la gran bolsa de los ruidos.

El, în definitiv, nu reuÈ™ea decât s? stârneasc? ilaritate: È™i nu È™tia s? fac? asta decât luând în batjocur? anumite lucruri. Iar aceste lucruri, din întâmplare, erau tocmai acelea pe care nu reuÈ™ise s? le aib? în via??.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

La risa? ¡Qué cosa extraña! Es un temblor alegre que corre por dentro, como las ardillas por un árbol hueco. Pero luego restalla en la cintura, y hace aflojar las rodillas…

Let me tell you a joke, Rora said. Mujo and his wife, Fata, are in bed. It's late at night. Mujo is falling asleep, and Fata is watching porn: a horny couple, all silicone and tattoos, is sucking and fucking like there is no tomorrow. Mujo says, C'mon, Fata, turn that off, let's go to sleep. And Fata says, Let me just see if these kids are going to get married in the end.

History: the first time a joke, the second time a badly translated joke.

Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.

If a love encounter is like a good joke, then what is love in its duration and temporality-what is, as we say, a love that lasts?

It is this short circuit that constitutes the peak of comedy: not simply the fact that Big Jim erroneously sees a chicken when he looks at Charlie, but also the fact that, for all his error, he is somehow right-Charlie does look like a chicken.

There are many things wrong with you. A hangover just isn't one of them.

Oh! I thought you were the man with the dress." "He could put one on for you," said Velius. "He's got the legs for it.

Goodman, a friend of the Coens since he worked with them on their second movie, Raising Arizona, laughed about the scene where William Macy tried to escape out of a motel window, only to be dragged back inside by the cops. "Macy in his underwear," Goodman said, giggling. "That's our answer to everything," Ethan said. "You need a dramatic fall, put a character in his undies.

Doctors sometimes joke that if patients get good medical care, they will recover from the flu in a week. Without help, they'll need seven days.

Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants...not that you're... Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant.