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Quotes About Humor

Each week, we might write 500 jokes for 'Weekend Update,' and ultimately, we can only do about 10.
~ Colin Jost
Let's face it: dancing isn't one of my strong points.
~ Jim Nabors
We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
~ Walt Handelsman
You have to learn where people's funnybone is before you can start to poke fun and work out where that joy lies.
~ Chris Harris
It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.
~ Chris Kattan
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
~ Ram Kapoor
I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that.
~ Kendra Wilkinson
I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother?
~ Alexis Stewart
It's always fun to write the little bit of TV that the characters watch in 'Gravity Falls,' because it's a perfect place to poke fun at the media.
~ Alex Hirsch
Comic-Con is incredibly important to San Diego, but that doesn't mean we can't poke a little fun at it!
~ Steve Breen
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
~ Delta Burke
I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love.
~ Jourdan Dunn
My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us.
~ Colin Trevorrow
I'm the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience 'hands up who had big hair in the 80s?'.
~ Limahl
I've never been married, but I'm imagining what it's like: Sometimes Jack snores, and I get to poke him.
~ Kyle Gass
DJs used to mickey-take, have a real poke at Shakin' Stevens.
~ Shakin' Stevens
Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.
~ Dylan Moran
Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at street hustlers. I didn't quite make as much money as one would gambling, but it was a lot safer.
~ Harry Anderson
I think for us - and for a lot of people in the Church of Satan - we definitely like ruffling people's feathers and poking fun at organized religion a little bit.
~ Matt Skiba
I think that what comes through in Chicago humor is the affection. Even though you're poking fun at someone or something, there's still an affection for it.
~ Bob Newhart
I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.
~ Neil Sedaka
Washington is nothing if not an orchard of absurdities, and poking fun at power brokers is neither sex blind nor for the faint of heart.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
The circumstances In which I grew up In Poland were not auspicious for humor.
~ Krzysztof Penderecki