Quotes About Humor

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny.

Why does 'I Love Lucy' still make people laugh? Because she's a specific character who has real reactions.

My granddad was very funny and I really loved making people laugh. I used to do puppet shows and I really liked seeing people's reactions.

98% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first - and the other 2% are lying.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

I am not a good cue card reader.

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

I don't laugh that much, but I do like humorous books, and I like to entertain readers that way.

It's interesting with my blog, because it feels to me less like a blog and more like a forum, because my readers are so funny and leave hysterical comments. And I'm not being humble when I say that very often, the comments are so much better than the post originally was.

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

'Plum's are probably the funniest, but all the books have their own degree of humor. But if you're hooked into 'Ranger,' you're reading it for the romance.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.

I've been to Reagan National Airport. I tell people it was named after me.

To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

In my films, a lot of the situations come from real life.