Quotes About Humor

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

There's nothing worse than trying to be funny and not being funny.

During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh if he was hoping to reach 100. 'Good God, no,' he spluttered, 'I can't imagine anything worse. What a ghastly idea.'

If something can be said to make an awkward moment even worse, I'm going to say it.

There's nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it's really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.

I've likened Mignolet to worse than Dracula because at least Dracula comes out of his coffin now and then. He seems to stay on his line and that's it.

If you want to land a punchline for how bad something is, you say 'Detroit,' even, like, in conversation. 'Oh, well, things could be worse. You could be in Detroit.' It makes me so mad.

You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.

It was an old cricket coach who started calling me Fred - as in Flintstone. There are far worse things to be called in the dressing room.

Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

I could have worse tags than 'Airmiles Andy' - although I don't know what they are.

There is nothing worse than annotated humour.

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

I don't worship comedy; at the end of the day, I don't fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.

I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will find it surprising. I'm one of the worst 'corpses' on a movie set, which means you can't keep a straight face. You start to get the giggles and you can't stop.

I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.

I made some truly awful movies. 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot' was the worst. If you ever want someone to confess to murder just make him or her sit through that film. They will confess to anything after 15 minutes.

I've had a surprising number of near-death experiences: I was nearly blown up by a landmine in Sudan; I was stranded on the Zambezi river at night; I was bucked off a rodeo horse in Arizona and had to be airlifted to hospital; and, worst of all, I once ate a Pot Noodle.

I kind of find humor in everything, even to the point where it's awkward - like, the worst scenarios are the funniest things ever.

Kurt Vonnegut said, 'The best of Bob and Ray is virtually indistinguishable from the worst.' I'm sure he meant that as a compliment.

My siblings and I have got the worst teeth in Britain.