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

“The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.”

-- Jason Alexander

“People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.”

-- Carmen Electra

“I can't not put humor in a book.”

-- Albert Brooks

“Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.”

-- Colin Quinn

“G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.”

-- Nelson DeMille

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

-- George Herbert

“I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.”

-- Cathy Guisewite

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

-- Max Eastman

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

-- David Herbert Lawrence