Quotes About Humor

Mimicry artistes and comedians are supposed to incorporate incidents around him in his acts in a satirical way. For that, he should be well aware about the things happening around him.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

Some of us don't have the energy to be as incredible and riotous and fantastic as Emma Thompson. You're constantly just lapping up her incredible hilariousness.

I've been interviewed for hundreds of magazine articles, and they come out incredibly goofy about 90 percent of the time.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

It's funny: When I first heard they were thinking of me for the president in 'Independence Day,' I just assumed it was a comedy - I didn't exactly think of myself as leader-of-the-free-world material.

I keep saying this to everyone: 'Grand Masti' is a family film that the entire family needs to watch - independently!

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

Je ne savais pas encore quOn ne peut plus rire quand on est tout seul. On peut monologuer, on parle souvent tout haut, mais étrangement, le rire ne se produit plus.

I'm just funnin' with you." The slang term sounded sarcastic and condescending coming from his mouth, particularly with the intentionally dropped g.

La prima: mai scegliere l'umorismo se non siamo certi di saperlo maneggiare. L'ironia è la sorella laica della misericordia; il sarcasmo, il fratello antipatico dell'intelligenza.

At the root of the comic there is a sort of rigidity which compels its victims to keep strictly to one path, to follow it straight along, to shut their ears and refuse to listen.

Comic absurdity is of the same nature as that of dreams.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth.

Take it with a grin of salt.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

É recomendável pendurar na sala alguns cartazes com frases como: "NÃO FAÇAM ESSAS CARAS TÃO ROMANTICAS." Indicação de Bertold Brecht para a comédia Tambores na Noite.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.