Quotes About Unexpected

Humor comes out of the unexpected: If there's no surprise, there's no laugh. In a triple, as discussed in chapter seven, the first two lines are often straight lines; this is the realistic element. The third line is the surprise twist—logically related to the first two lines, but unexpected and exaggerated. Realism is the setup, while exaggeration is the joke. "Get your facts first," wrote Mark Twain, "and then you can distort them as much as you please.

The penis, when you pull the underwear down, it's like a drunk friend just falling out of a car. —Jo Koy

A joke is a curve ball—a pitch that bends at the last instant and fools the batter. "You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that," Burrows said. To achieve the unexpected twist, it's sometimes necessary to sacrifice grammar and even logic.

Since it appears that exaggeration is the logical antithesis of realism, it may seem ludicrous to have both within the framework of one piece of humor. But good humor is a paradox—the unexpected juxtaposition of the reasonable next to the unreasonable—and that creates surprise. Think

Didn't that just figure? One of the most

It's looks like someone slapped you in the face with a fruit roll-up or something!

I gave my girlfriend something she didn't expect for Valentine's day... Chlamydia.

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

One time when somebody showed up in a wedding dress, but I never knew if it was a joke, or she was serious. She asked me to marry her. She was serious. It was pretty funny.

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen.

It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!

How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens.

I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny.

My ex-boyfriend can round last night, which was weird because I didn't know he was in a coma.

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

Listening to your own mind gives you "good reasons" why you should be fearful over unexpected events is just like being friends with someone who thinks it's funny to find new ways to hurt you!

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

I've come to ask you where Seth is." "Funny," said Andrea. "We were going to ask you the same thing." I was taken aback. "How would I know?" They both just stared. "I don't!

I took a baby shower.