Quotes About Humor

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

Comedy makes things believable. Because if there's anything we all know, it's how to make fun of ourselves, and to make fun of situations to make them a bit easier.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

I thought, 'Anyone can make up a lie, but making the truth funny is really hard.' But I actually had more problems with people believing me when I told the truth on stage.

You don't find me too bald, do you? Old, and bald, and with a belly?

I have a beer belly.

I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing.

Launching into a long story involving a French tourist, a Buddhist monk, and a particularly shaggy yak, Hall delivered the punch line with an impish squint, paused a beat for effect, then threw his head back in a booming, contagious laugh, unable to contain his delight in his own yarn. I liked him immediately.

At seventy-five, Churchill said: "I am prepared to meet my Maker. But whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Good humor, Jefferson added, "is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society all the little conveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration;

One man was saying, 'It cost me a new SUV for my wife,'" Andrew said. "Another said, 'It cost me a cruise to the Bahamas and a new kitchen.' Everyone was laughing.

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this—that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back.

like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least to a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too.

I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

No one is better at not beating America than England.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you have no regime.

Cause if there's one thing Islamic terrorists don't have is....(seriously thinking about it)....%#@&!

Classroom Activities 1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas . Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia !

I happily played the clown, Because I am a clown.

It's kind of like wearing a baseball cup. I want to call it the Mangina." "That's a good name for it. . . . Where are the other vaginas you made?" Chandler brought over to me a plastic bag and dumped out all the failed vaginas on to his drafting table.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.