Quotes About Comedy

Humor comes from self-confidence.

What are men wearing? Why do they think women like horse saddles and pine sap? If a man wanted me to follow him down the street, he should wear something called "Butter Cookie" or, even better, "Croissant."

If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, "I love you. I want to marry you. I want to have your children." Sometimes they leave skid marks.

My mom took up belly dancing. In order to make it appear like she was moving, my father and I had to jiggle the furniture in back of her.

I'm not going to breast-feed. I've put this off so long, I'm sure my milk has expired.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Heckle and Jeckle again

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

It is no secret that Desi was cheating on Lucy, and that he shared with Bill Frawley a fondness for alcohol.

Had he been a few years younger and lived a decade or two longer, Frawley would have been perfectly cast as lovable bigot Archie Bunker on All in the Family, the classic CBS sitcom that came to television in 1971.

Of all the people I've ever met; you're one of them!

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it.

Optimist: someone who isn't sure whether life is a tragedy or a comedy but is tickled silly just to be in the play.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

It's amazing how much funny stuff there is.... [A] river of rich comedic milk is flowing across the land, and as fast as I skim off the cream more cream appears.... I may be doomed to wade around forever in other people's pith. Not that it's such a bad life.

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Make understanding people a fun game, the solving of puzzles. It is all part of the human comedy. Yes, people are irrational, but so are you. Make your acceptance of human nature as radical as possible. This will calm you down and help you observe people more dispassionately, understanding them on a deeper level. You will stop projecting your own emotions on to them. All of this will give you more balance and calmness, more mental space for thinking.