Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of humor. I need them to laugh at what's funny, I need them to get jokes and be funny and be witty and sarcastic.
~ Casper Smart
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
~ Ellen Degeneres
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.
~ Bill Hicks
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
~ Lucille Ball
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
~ Bill Burr
Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we're familiar with in gaming and being like, 'OK, hold on, let's re-examine this for a second. Isn't this funny? Isn't this strange? Isn't this a little bit ridiculous?' That's where it is.
~ Freddie Wong
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
~ Tom Delonge
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
~ Woody Allen
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
~ Carol Burnett
I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you can't read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesn't read that way.
~ Michael Buble
I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.
~ Daryl Hall
There's something very authentic about humor, when you think about it. Anybody can pretend to be serious. But you can't pretend to be funny.
~ Billy Collins
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
~ Sid Fleischman
Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.
~ Betty White
I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life. I need to have a laugh track following me around so people know I'm trying to be funny.
~ Teddy Thompson
Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny.
~ Issa Rae
It's a funny old world.
~ Margaret Thatcher
A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it.
~ Ivan Reitman
You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.
~ Terry Bradshaw
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
~ Adam Carolla
I think it's important to find humor anywhere you can. In real life, with the darkest, scariest, most intense moments, if you can find something funny, that's good.
~ Katie Lowes
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
~ Garrison Keillor
I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
~ Topher Grace
I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.
~ George Takei
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
~ François Truffaut
I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.
~ Hasan Minhaj
I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.
~ Mitt Romney
People often think that you have a sense of humor because you think that life is funny. Life isn't funny at all. It's appalling and tragic.
~ Howard Jacobson
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
~ Bill Cosby
Bob Dole used to be really funny. Barney Frank can be kind of funny. Bob Kerrey has a good sense of humor.
~ Al Franken
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
~ Zooey Deschanel
My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.
~ Jason Bateman
My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
~ Michael Caine
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
~ Roseanne Barr
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
~ Steve Carell
Twitter is the place where I try to be more funny. And then I use Instagram just as my diary. I pull some jokes on there, but I think people have a better sense of humor on Twitter.
~ Gigi Hadid
Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.
~ Ice Cube
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.
~ Sloane Crosley
