Quotes about Humor

“I am often the brunt of my own humor.”

“I like to think my sense of humor is sort of smart and dumb at the same time. I like to work on multiple levels - smart and dumb, funny and sad, profound and mundane, cynical and hopeful.”

“There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.”

“God has a most wicked sense of humor.”

“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.”

“When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.”

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”

“I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.”

“Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.”

“My dad had a great sense of humor; he was a very funny guy and did know how to laugh.”

“Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.”

“You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.”

“I've always had a sick sense of humor, and I've always wanted that to permeate the music because I don't take myself seriously. I take the music seriously, but I know I'm not God's gift to anyone except my mom.”

“Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.”

“All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.”

“It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.”

“In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.”

“I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.”

“They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.”

“Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.”

“When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.”