Humor Culture Quotes

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.

I come from a family of teasers myself. My grandfather was from Liverpool, and he had a dry sense of humor, and he would tease us terribly. My brother Beau was so skilled in his teasing that he could get a rise out of me by simply pointing at me.

Canadians can be funny.

Australians, we've got a very healthy sense of humor in us. God forbid we take ourselves too seriously so it's kind of a cultural trait.

I was inspired by comedy channels. I loved that they got to do sketches and could be funny and crude and make people laugh. But most of those channels, if not all of them, were done by guys.

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.

A German sense of humor is an oxymoron.

My whole family is very sarcastic and constantly making jokes.

Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

I grew up in a house that liked to be funny. Everybody liked to be funny. My family's been...we've been enjoying each other's comedy for years.

You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.

You might be a redneck if your grandfather completely executes the pull my finger trick at the family reunion.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

You might be a redneck if you see a sign that says Say No To Crack and it reminds you to pull your jeans up.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

Women have been funny for years.

I'm not a big believer in the sense of Jews having a monopoly on comedy.

England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

You might be a redneck if you give your dad a gallon of Pepto-Bismol for his birthday.