Quotes About Humor

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

I adore jokes. They're a theatrical contrivance, but the irony of all fiction is that you approach reality by avoiding it a bit; you spoof it a bit.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

You watch an old 'Jeopardy!' and the categories alone are very plain. 'Poetry,' or 'Movies,' or 'Physics.' If you watch it now, though, there'll be a theme board where the categories are all Hitchcock movies. Lots more jokes, lots more high-concept categories and questions.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

The humor and emotion of the 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman' theme makes me cry every time I watch it, and that deep emotion is something we'd love to do on the show. If we can make you cry, we always try to. And 'Once,' when it's at its best, is emotional and fun.

Oh my God, if you're talking terrible theme songs, you have to mention Matt Hardy. I can't understand what they're even saying. There's a point in Matt Hardy's song where it sounds like they say 'I want to meet the cheese.' I'm always like, 'Meet the cheese?' Just goofy stuff.

My stand-up shows don't really have a theme but do have an interactive element to them.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that make Italians laugh, anyway.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

How bad is it?" "I have a headache," he said irritably. "It's probably just a minor skull fracture with brain damage." She struggled not to smile. "Did you have that x-rayed?" she asked, indicating his hand with her eyes. "Sprain. It's bruised and sore, that's all. You'll probably be very disappointed to know I'm going to completely recover." "Hm.

Ew." "Exactly. You tell her I was less than perfect and I'm a eunuch." She couldn't help it, she laughed. "Gee, and Peyton seems so sweet.

If you don't mind me saying so, you look kind of fragile for that kind of work." She laughed and her whole face brightened. "Is that so? Well, this fragile girl has cleaned up a lot of dumps and lifted more than her share of heavy stuff, Your Reverence." He cleared his throat. "It's Noah. Please. I'm not the pope." "I know that," she scoffed. "I was being funny." "Ah. And so you were," he admitted.

I might be a little more of an adult if you're counting years but I bet I have a lower IQ, so that puts us pretty much even.

You shot me in the dick!" he screamed. "You shot me!" Well, that was fortuitous, she thought. She'd been aiming for his head.

Do you feel all right?" he asked, glancing at her. "You're a little…pink." "I feel fantastic. Probably just the calm before the storm." "Probably," he said. "You do that again tomorrow and I'm tying you down. You make me crazy sometimes." "Jack…" She laughed. "When did you get like this? You're so annoying!" By

She reached out a hand and touched the hair at his temple. "You're getting a little gray here." "Big surprise. I really didn't know you'd be such a handful." "I'm the best thing that ever happened to you." "Yeah," he said in a breath. He leaned down and kissed her brow. "Yeah, baby. You sure are. And you're a reproductive genius." John

Playing with me again," he teased. "Don't you worry that you're biting off more than you can chew, little girl?" "Aren't you?" she asked. He groaned. "I know I am." And she laughed at him. As