Victor Borge Quotes

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

If you record the world honestly, there's no way people can stop being funny. A lot of fiction writing doesn't get that idea, as if to acknowledge it would trivialize the story or trivialize human nature, when in fact human nature is reduced and falsified if the comic aspects are not included.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.

The truth is really funny. It's uncomfortable sometimes, it's dramatic sometimes, but it's really funny. Life is funny.

Comedy is funny when it comes from truth, and that's always the rule of them. It's about how far you can push that boundary.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable for people, and hopefully they'll laugh at you, too.

Most humor comes from truth. In the end, if I can laugh about it, who cares?

Jokes? There are no jokes. The truth is the funniest joke of all.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.