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Quotes About Comedy

If we do not know what humor is, that may be because we do not know what humankind is.
~ Steve Allen
When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.
~ Greg Davies
Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.
~ Amanda Seyfried
I think I have always had a little humor.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.
~ Mike Nichols
Humor is healing.
~ Brad Garrett
We do not take humor seriously enough.
~ Konrad Lorenz
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
~ Eminem
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
~ Max Frisch
Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.
~ Richard Lewis
The humor section is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons.
~ David Sedaris
I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes.
~ Sarah Hyland
Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.
~ Regina Hall
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.
~ Amy Schumer
I can't not put humor in a book.
~ Albert Brooks
I love dark humor that crosses the line and makes you say, 'That's so wrong!' And that's 'Family Guy' to me.
~ Elena Satine
There's humor in everything. There's gotta be humor in everything.
~ Amy Sedaris
Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
~ Terrence Howard
To this day, I've found that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like if he's really funny. His sense of humor makes him attractive. On the other hand, you don't hear men saying, 'No she's not pretty, but is she ever funny!'
~ Catherine O'Hara
I like humor.
~ David Yates
Humor is the secret into the audience's other ranges of emotions.
~ Kevin Feige
My self-deprecating humor may not be as funny as I thought.
~ Camille Grammer