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Quotes About Comedy

So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.
~ Mike Birbiglia
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"
~ Frank Carson
I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.
~ Julie Delpy
Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"
~ Matt Groening
If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.
~ Ted Nugent
Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.
~ Flip Wilson
Can human beings change? The humor, and the sadness, of remarriage comedies can be said to result from the fact that we have no good answer to that question.
~ Stanley Cavell
I talk a lot about women in my act, 'cause let's face it -- if I was hungry, I would talk about food.
~ Adam Ferrara
2 Guys in a health club, one is putting on pantyhose. "Since when do you wear pantyhose?" "Since my wife found it in the glove compartment!"
~ Henny Youngman
American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap.
~ Elinor Glyn
If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.
~ Rita Rudner
I've got a dope sense of humor, brah.
~ alan
I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.
~ Wendy Liebman
I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.
~ Frank Carson
Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.
~ Colin Quinn
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.
~ Ryan Kwanten
And now to sleep, to dream...perchance to fart.
~ Anthony Bourdain
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
~ David Alan Grier
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
~ Ric Ocasek
I don't know how to describe my sense of humor.
~ Michael Angarano
So, I sit at the hotel at night and I think of something that's funny. Or, If the pen is too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of wasn't funny.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
It's like geographical humor. You just don't get it unless you were there.
~ Melina Marchetta