Humor Quotes

“Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.”

-- Aziz Ansari

“Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.”

-- James Thurber

“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

“A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.”

-- Mignon McLaughlin

“At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.”

-- Tabitha Soren

“I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.”

-- Rachael Ray

“If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.”

-- Enid Bagnold

“Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.”

-- Dick Van Dyke

“We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.”

-- Shawn Wayans

“When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.”

-- Thomas W. Higginson