Quotes About Humor

Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I've come full circle because that's what the TV show is too.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you shouldn't have.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.

This world is a comedy, not Life.

I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.

Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face.