Quotes About Humor

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

Tous les chats sont mortels. Socrate est mortel. Donc Socrate est un chat.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too.

We must truly listen to each other, respecting our essential brotherhood and the courage of those who try to speak, however they may differ from us in professional standing or religious belief or moral vision. We must speak and listen patiently, with good humor, with real expectation, and our dialogue can serve both truth and charity.

I regard the wheelbarrow full of fresh dirt resting above my unquiet grave. Now I'm in the hole I dug myself, I think with amusement. It feels like an accomplishment

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.

Telling a joke is like doing a linguistic pirouette. If you fall flat, it means not only that you don't have the wherewithal to do it well but also that you have misjudged your own skill, that you are fool enough to undertake something you can't finish -- and that lack of self-control or self-knowledge is a lack of grace.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Someday we'll look back on this moment, and plow into a parked car

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

Some of the finest comedies have chosen the Church as its subject and would indeed make most Christians laugh, give or take the occasional wince as a barb goes home. I have very fond memories of 'Our Man at St Marks' and long for the day when it is released on DVD but I won't hold my breath.

Bernie Mac is relentless. That's one thing I like about him. He's not PC. He doesn't care what you think. He's going out there to please that audience.

Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

It's such a smart decision for comedy to not try to be relevant or contemporary.

The stuff we're seeing in 'Deadpool' and 'Harley Quinn' now, Plastic Man was doing in the 1940s. It's a character that was ahead of its time back then and the stories are still funny and still relevant.

The last thing I want my robot to be is sarcastic. I want them to be pragmatic and reliable - just like my dishwasher.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show.

You look for comic relief in difficult times.

I provide a little comic relief.

I'd say the majority of my friends are Australians, although I have some good American friends, but I think with Aussies, we just get it. We don't take each other too seriously, which is a relief.