A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes. —Lucy Maud Montgomery More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Back of the sun and way deep under our feet, at the earth's center, are not a couple of noble mysteries but a couple of joke books. —Tennessee Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The art of the clown is more profound than we think: it is neither tragic nor comic. It is the comic mirror of tragedy and the tragic mirror of comedy. —André Suarès More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. —William James More about this quote Tags: humor common sense speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: humor interest Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are three theories of humor. The Superiority Theory — that you laugh when you realize that you're better than someone else. Then there's Freud's Release Theory, which says that jokes are about ventilating forbidden impulses. . . . All of the psychic energy you used to repress them gets released . . . in chest-heaving, spasmodic laughter. Then there's the one that makes most sense to me, the Incongruity Theory, that jokes are about the pure intellectual pleasure we take in yanking together things that seem utterly dissimilar and perceiving similarities. . . . That's the highest form of humor. As jokes get funnier, they rely more on incongruity and less on hostility and superiority or on sex and naughtiness. —Jim Holt More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's so damn hard to make jokes work. . . . A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap. —Kurt Vonnegut Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that, deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting late. —Jack Handey More about this quote Tags: humor kids Disney Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk. —Cynthia Heimel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. —Agnes Repplier More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Comedy is when you accidentally fall off a cliff and die. Tragedy is when I have a hangnail. —Mel Brooks More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A patient complaining of melancholy consulted Dr. John Abernethy. After an examination the doctor pronounced, "You need amusement. Go and hear the comedian Grimaldi; he will make you laugh, and that will be better for you than any drugs." Said the patient, "I am Grimaldi. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It was the kind of laughter that caught like briars in her chest and felt very much like pain. —Katherine Paterson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't think that the comic and the serious can be separated in talking about human reality, any more than you can separate hydrogen and oxygen and still be talking about water. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. —Caroline Llewellyn More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email