Quotes About Humor

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

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.

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

So I phoned up the spiritual leader of tibet, he sent me a large goat with a long neck, turns out I phoned dial a lama.

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

Azhar Usman is very funny, deeply spiritual, and extremely hairy. He's like Zach Galifianakis meets Deepak Chopra-and funnier than you'd expect that combination to be.

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat.

So, your god is the only god? Okay, but then, so is my dog.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.