Quotes About Irony

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.

I play a guy who is 40. And I am a very good actor, because I'm 41.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

If you stop and think about it, nearly all great humor is at the expense of someone or something.

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Happiness is being served with a paternity suit on your 75th birthday.

I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.