Humor Quotes

“You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.”

-- Marlon Wayans

“But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.”

-- Marion Ross

“A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.”

-- Chris Rock

“Humor expands our limited picture frame and gets us to see more than just our problem.”

-- Allen Klein

“Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.”

-- Allen Klein

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

-- Lara Flynn Boyle

“I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.”

-- Moby

“With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.”

-- Calvin Trillin

“One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.”

-- Larry Gelbart

“It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?”

-- Dan Simmons